Jamesina Fitzgerald Quotes & Sayings

Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such — Jean-Paul Sartre

One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother. — Andie MacDowell

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. — Daisaku Ikeda

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. — Henri Bergson

He was directly invited to join their party, but he declined it, observing that he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would interfere. "What could he mean? She was dying to know what could be his meaning?"
and asked Elizabeth whether she could at all understand him?
"Not at all," was her answer; "but depend upon it, he means to be severe on us, and our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask nothing about it. — Jane Austen

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them. — Meghan O'Rourke

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again. — Henry Williamson

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. — Felicia Day