Judith Martin Quotes

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Judith Martin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1938

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I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

John Engler

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What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

Andrea Bocelli

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I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.

Matthew Perry

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It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

Jean-Claude Duvalier

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It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

Ronald Reagan

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We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.

Mike D

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I kept these games pretty intimate. You know, with this much money on the table, with this much risk, you wanted to make people feel safe. They don't want to feel like they're part of a spectator's sport - well, the winners do, but the losers do not.

Molly Bloom

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All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Michael Mandelbaum

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Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.

Miranda July

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Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

Lucy Alibar

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Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

Janine di Giovanni

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