Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797

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LifeLiveBlessingIndependenceLong

I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.

Jill Sobule

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One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

Steven Wright

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I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.

Michelle Pfeiffer

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Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order.

Michael Korda

SuccessFatherMyselfMeWinning

He is great enough that is his own master.

Joseph Hall

GreatEnoughMasterOwnHeHis

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

PeopleGoExampleYourBefore

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

William S. Burroughs

KnowledgeGoingOnlyYourRelative

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

Phoebe Cates

QualityStartDoingYouOutMake

I try not to think about anybody's reaction to what I do.

Shane Black

ThinkTryReactionAnybodyAbout

I definitely believe in God.

Tinie Tempah

GodBelieveDefinitely

I've been thinking about 'The Jetsons' since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want 'The Jetsons' to come to reality. That's what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it.

Tim Cook

GreatThinkingRealityYouApple

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Nikolai Gogol

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