Mary Renault Quotes

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Mary Renault

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 4, 1905 - December 13, 1983

Topics

LoveSoulGrowHatredLikeOur

I grew up around a mix of a lot of people, so I got a lot of different perspectives. As a kid, I appreciated that.

Jermaine Fowler

PeopleAppreciatedKidUpDifferent

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

John Gay

MoneyWifeEarthTrueOutTake

I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsTransitionAlwaysMexico

Who laughs less than feminists?

Tucker Carlson

WhoThanLaughsLessFeminists

I feel like I'm just like anyone else. I just happen to play football, and obviously with that comes responsibility, but I love that.

Torrey Smith

LoveResponsibilityFootballFeel

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

NatureBusinessPeopleManagement

It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about.

Lorrie Fair

GreatPeopleMeWinThinkWay

There's so much you can learn from being on a big tour and so much you can learn from being in the clubs.

Jon Pardi

LearnYouBigBeingTourMuch

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

Dennis Eckersley

MeTearsSometimesPitchingDid

Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.

Derek Walcott

DieSoilSoldiersReturnArtists

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Arnold H. Glasow

LeadershipGoodLeaderBlameCredit

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we're also starting to be really brave.

Aurora

BalancePeopleBraveWorldFeeling

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