Anna Quindlen Famous Quotes
"The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous."
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
A finished person is a boring person.
"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
Anna Quindlen Quotations
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson
"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."
Erma Bombeck
My own mind is my own church.
Carl Lotus Becker
"Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy."
Hesiod
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Homer
"Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
W Somerset Maugham
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Lawrence Peter Berra
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
Mark Twain
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it"
Albert Einstein