Jane Welsh Carlyle Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and – Oh Plato! – make a pudding? – Jane Welsh Carlyle Descend Quotes Earth Quotes Grow Quotes Heaven Quotes Ideal Quotes Marry Quotes Plato Quotes Pudding Quotes Real Quotes Reasonable Quotes They call me ‘sweet,’ and ‘gentle’; and some of the men go the length of calling me ‘endearing,’ and I laugh in my sleeve and think, ‘Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!’ The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.
Maria Mitchell I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work. – Maria Mitchell
Justin Gatlin Critics are just what they are. They’re going to pick at the positivity of things. – Justin Gatlin
Dave Bautista It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I’m not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself. – Dave Bautista
Robert C O'Brien For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and then politically. We could not have been more wrong – a miscalculation that stands as the greatest failure of U.S. foreign policy since the 1930s. – Robert C O’Brien
Aaron Tveit Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It’s such an output and exchange of energy. You can’t do that anywhere else. – Aaron Tveit
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