Edmonde Supplice Quotes & Sayings

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers. — Francis Quarles

Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women - as a career, that is - and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, 'Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?' and I applied to drama school. — Emily Berrington

Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too. — Yoko Ono

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism. — Mother Teresa

Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman. — Mary Abigail Dodge

We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader's store of hypotheses about how life is to be understood. — Marilynne Robinson

The security (emotional security, spiritual security, intrapersonal security) that you think being thin or lean will provide you is just an illusion. Leanness and weight-loss will not deliver these securities to you. — Scott Abel

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured. — Leo Buscaglia

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market. — Ha-Joon Chang