Nadine Gordimer Famous Quotes & Sayings

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read. — Tiffini Johnson

I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me! — Mike Modano

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty. — Christopher Earle

Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life. — Marie Curie

It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill

I've been a Democrat all my life. — Caroline Kennedy

Fall ten times, stand up eleven. — Shannon L. Alder

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character. — Thomas Jane

Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures. — Mary E. DeMuth

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that. — James M. Barrie

Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give. — Mary Parker Follett

And I too change perpetually - now this, now that - now disappointed and peevish because all is not exactly as I had pictured it, and now suddenly discovering that the reality is far more beautiful than I had imagined it. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I swear to you, Zane. I thought what I was doing was right. I searched for you after I left New York. You were out of my reach. When Burns read me in, the only thing I could think of was that it was the only way of getting back to you. Being partnered with you full-time, being able ... being able to see you every day, to have you in my life. When he said you might need protecting, it was the only thing I heard. I swear to you. All I wanted from the day I left you in that hospital was you. To be back there with you. — Abigail Roux