Katharine Firestone Quotes

If you meet me on the street you should hurry on without a backward glance, and later when you climb into bed beside a happy girl with simple thoughts and stroke her perfect hair with fingers that are still shaky from our near-miss, you can whisper that you had a brush with death today, darling, and somehow lived. ~ Julie Johnson

To those who would love me - I offer you a warning. Do no get to close. You won't survive. ~ Julie Johnson

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, "What's your alternative?" But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to reflect revolutionary anger and turn it against itself. Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need know is that the present system is destroying them. ~ Shulamith Firestone

The way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more. ~ Katharine Tynan

If Rylin had learned anything by now, it was that in real life, you never quite knew what was coming. You had to take the bad with the good. You had to take a chance, hold your breath, and trust people. After all, the fun of real life stories is that they're still being written. ~ Katharine McGee

There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And there arose also the satyrs, and sprites, and the maniacs of the valleys, and the witches, and goblins, and owls, and destroying demons of the air and firmament, and the demoniac phantom host; and they were inciting and sustaining valour and battle with them. ~ Katharine Mary Briggs

Included among the ecclesiastical works on his bedroom shelves were the writings of "The Great Agnostic," Robert Ingersoll, whom the brothers and Katharine were encouraged to read. "Every mind should be true to itself - should think, investigate and conclude for itself," wrote Ingersoll. It was the influence of Ingersoll apparently that led the brothers to give up regular attendance at church, a change the Bishop seems to have accepted without protest. ~ David McCullough

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind ... ~ Katharine Whitehorn

I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism. ~ Katharine Jefferts Schori

In general, we imagine rivers to be subject to a kind of dynamic equilibrium, largely stable geologic features, with processes like regional incision or subtle shifts in mountain building causing short- and medium-term variation around some slowly changing mean condition, but in fact it is far more common to see dramatic change over short periods, with long periods of stability between in what geologists refer to as 'dynamic metastable equilibrium.'
It is the same with families, memory, the history of a person's life, what we believe to be true. ~ Katharine Haake

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself. ~ Katharine Whitehorn

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Your traditions change from when you are child to when you become an adult. ~ Katharine McPhee

In general, people find it easier to accept flattery or false praise than genuine admiration and love, because a build-up does not threaten their negative beliefs about themselves. It is not uncommon for people to dismiss a genuine compliment from someone who really admires them and appreciates their personal qualities. they feel awkward and uncomfortable because this experience causes anxiety, self-consciousness, and guilt about standing out. ~ Robert Firestone Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch. ~ Katharine McPhee

For the unlikely revolutionaries, The ones who were, The ones who changed the world. ~ Carrie Firestone

The lack of work destroys people. ~ Katharine Hepburn

To be honest, I'm really more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of a girl. ~ Katharine McPhee

(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM. ~ Laraine Day

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense. ~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears. ~ Katharine Tynan

To be worshiped is not freedom. ~ Shulamith Firestone

By the hairy ass of lord hell. Many characters in the Deverry Cycle Novels ~ Katharine Kerr

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. ~ Katharine Hepburn

All good storytellers study psychology ... Novelists, filmmakers, even actors. You have to know the rules of human behavior before you can make your characters break them. ~ Katharine McGee

Real love comes from creating a family together, from facing life together -- with all its messes and surprises and joys. ~ Katharine McGee

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences. ~ Lisa Firestone

According to the federal government's own figures, the top 1 percent of U.S. wage earners were responsible for 68 percent of all federal tax receipts in 2011. Not just federal income tax, mind you, all federal taxes. ~ Mary Katharine Ham

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ~ Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have a really hot dress and a nice pair of shoes and just go out there and look fabulous and try to sing my best. ~ Katharine McPhee

I've missed you, Eris. You and me, we kind of deserve each other, don't we? ~ Katharine McGee

Relationships never make sense from the outside; the only people qualified to weigh in on them are the people in them. ~ Katharine McGee

I am lost without you, duchess." "Then you are found. Because you will not be without me ever again." She dipped her brow to his chest. "I will never leave you."

-Luc & Arabella ~ Katharine Ashe

Who said anything about forgetting? The point of forgiveness is to recognize that someone has hurt you, and to still love them in spite of it. ~ Katharine McGee

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question. ~ Katharine Tynan

I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... Whether it's a politics page and you want Dan Balz to tell you what is he reading, what does he think are the smartest articles today on the elections or the primaries. So, I think aggregation is great ... So I'm all for aggregation. And the more eyeballs we can get to our content, the better. We do want readers to be educated and to understand the difference between, what is a source that you can trust as opposed to just rumors out there. And the difference between just repurposing content and not crediting it. ~ Katharine Weymouth