Fiona Rees Ucla Quotes & Sayings

I wondered
not for the first time
whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted? — Nelson Mandela

I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other. — Ben Schott

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing. — Joshua Hartzell

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it. — Joseph M. Marshall III

Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more. — Colleen McCullough

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now. — Karin Slaughter

And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies. — Berkeley Breathed

I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon. — Ronda Rousey

How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown? — Seamus Heaney

I played by the rules of politics as I found them. — Richard M. Nixon

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not. — Chip Conley

There's a lot of rage ... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent. — Siobhan Fahey

She wondered how many of them were liars; their outer purity masking crimes as dark or darker than her own. How many would be chromes themselves, if the truth in their hearts were revealed. — Hillary Jordan

Some of the greatest discoveries ... consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious. — Arthur Koestler