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70 quotes
“Which is more to blame, though both may do wrong: she who sins for payment, or he who pays for sin?”
“Divine rose that in gentle culture, you are, with your fragrant subtlety, purple magistracy in beauty, snowy lesson to loveliness”
“The whole world is opinions, of such varied judgments, that what one calls black, another proves is white”
“It is not wisdom to be wise in vain discourse; true wisdom lies in choosing what is sound”
“He who listens and learns, it is only right that he should attend and be silent”
“Reason has never been an offense”
“Even knowledge grows tiresome when it is one's profession”
“If Aristotle had cooked, he would have written much more”
“I don't study to know more, but to ignore less”
“Foolish men who accuse women without reason, not seeing that you are the occasion of the very thing you blame”
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. This is actually is the last sentence of the Nobel lecture of her husband Pierre Curie .”
“In life, there's nothing to be feared, everything is to be understood. As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (2006) by Melvin A. Benarde”
“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. As quoted in The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007 (2006) by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, p. 44”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. Java Connector Architecture: Building Custom Connectors and Adapters (2002) by Atul Apte, p. 69”
“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well”
“I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support. Letter to Eve Curie (July 1929), as quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 341”
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168”
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162”
“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. Lecture at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York”
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. 'La vie n’est facile pour aucun de nous. Mais quoi, il faut avoir de la persévérance, et surtout de la confiance en soi. Il faut croire que l’on est doué pour quelque chose, et que, cette chose, il faut l'atteindre coûte que coûte.' As quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, Part 2, p. 116”
“I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. Letter to Cassandra (1799”
“I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown. Letter to Cassandra (1799”
“She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat. Letter to Cassandra (1799”
“I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it. Letter (1799”
“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. Letter to Cassandra (1798”
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. Letter to Cassandra (1798”
“I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message”
“Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend. Letter (1798”
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance. Letter (1796”
“Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted. Letter (August 1796) on arriving in London [ Letters of Jane Austen”
“...We are all born happy. Life gets us dirty along the way, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it’s silent, tranquil, and gentle; it’s a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self”
“...you shouldn't stay trapped in the past or be frightened of the future. You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy? Every day counts, I can tell you!”
“There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It’s the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that’s why they get noticed...”
“When Irina Bazili began working at Lark House in 2010, she was twenty”
“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. Of Love and Shadows”
“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G”
“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. Paula”
“Where does taste end and smell begin? "Language of Flowers" anthologized in The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson”
“He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. Zorro”
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir”
“The first time I went into the place I was horrified to see little girls seven and eight years old on their knees scrubbing the cold stones of the long corridors ... bronchitis was epidemic among them most of the time ... I found that there were pregnant women in that workhouse, scrubbing floors, doing the hardest kind of work, almost until their babies came into the world ... Of course the babies are very badly protected ... These poor, unprotected mothers and their babies I am sure were potent factors in my education as a militant.”
“It was a time of tremendous unrest, of labour agitations, of strikes and lockouts. It was a time also when a most stupid reactionary spirit seemed to take possession of the Government and the authorities. The Salvation Army , the Socialists, the trade”
“The following year (1886) found us living in London, and, as usual, interesting ourselves with labour matters and other social movements. This year was memorable for a great strike of women working in the Bryant and May match factories. I threw myself into this strike with enthusiasm, working with the girls and with some women of prominence, among these the celebrated Mrs. Annie Besant. The strike was a successful one, the girls winning substantial improvements in their working conditions.”
“What a pity she wasn't born a lad.”
“making home attractive”
“The rest of the story reveals one of those ghastly blunders which justice not infrequently makes. Although the shooting was done without any intent to kill, the men were tried for murder and three of them were found guilty and hanged.... I was transfixed with horror, and over me there swept the sudden conviction that that hanging was a mistake”
“Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin , was so great a favourite with my mother that she used it continually as a source of bedtime stories for our fascinated ears. Those stories, told almost fifty years ago, are as fresh in my mind to”
“One of my earliest recollections is of a great bazaar which was held in my native city of Manchester, the object of the bazaar being to raise money to relieve the poverty of the newly emancipated negro slaves in the United States.... Young as I was”
“Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.”
“The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in Europe were being mobilised for savage, unsparing, barbarous warfare”
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. As quoted in Eleanor : The Years Alone (1972) by Joseph P. Lash”
“In Defense of Curiosity”
“good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.' from”
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix”
“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times”
“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. The New York Times (1960), as cited in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 156”
“It isn't enough to talk about peace . One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Voice of America broadcast”
“Understanding is a two”
“damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”
“Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it! In a letter to Lorena Hickok, March 7, 1933”
“I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.”
“They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.”
“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”
“The Cushion in the Road”
“, and this Obama has shown he can do.”
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet. From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth .”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.”
“A long walk to freedom”
“He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain. Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).”
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14 .”