Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 26, 1689 - August 21, 1762

Topics

LifeHappinessIgnoranceYouthPay

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.

Jill Lepore

ChildrenChildhoodPeopleResearch

The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.

John Brunner

QualitySurpriseUniverseUniqueUs

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

Ann Leckie

AttitudeMusicArtCulturePeople

We have a terrific team, and our managers are terrific managers, but we have made it too complicated for them and too complicated in a way that they just can't do an excellent job in many cases when it comes to the customer experience.

Steve Ells

ExperienceJobTeamCustomerWay

I'm concerned about my children being so much in the media.

Sridevi

ChildrenMediaBeingConcernedMuch

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.'

Stuart Scott

BusinessMeBetterYouLoseI Can

The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.

Toni Collette

FriendshipStrengthRelationshipOver

Most organizations don't fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don't end because of one grand argument. Most lives don't fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up - and break down.

Robin S. Sharma

FailureDailySadTimeSmallEnd

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

Ronald Isley

PeopleChanceThinkStandSomeone

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

Misha Collins

TogetherPuzzlePictureYouActing

My focus has to be on my career.

Lizzie Armitstead

FocusCareer

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

Christina Ricci

ThinkAfraidAshamedWhoLike

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