Phyllis Bottome Quotes

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Phyllis Bottome

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 31, 1884 - August 22, 1963

Topics

PeopleOutsiderWithinMustCome

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

Joan Collins

ThinkPersonActiveThingsI Think

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

John Dryden

ForgivenessWrongDoneBelongWho

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

John Fletcher

GoodWalkShadowsAngelsUsStill

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

John Cusack

LoveEffortPeopleProcessYouMore

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

John Mayer

HappinessAgeYourselfHappyYou

The Arab nations must be on our side. And if we catch them financing, if they funnel money to IS, that's when sanctions and other actions have to kick in.

Michael T. Flynn

MoneySideCatchKickMustActions

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

Joyce Meyer

HappinessHappyPeopleMeBe Happy

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

Douglas Coupland

FutureFeelUnexpectedWrongReason

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

Chris Evans

BestWomanMeAttentionYouGive

There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!

Colin Trevorrow

LifeWorldBuildingEnjoySynergy

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer

BoredomSituationOutsideDepend

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

William Kingdon Clifford

SimplicityMindBelieveEscapeDuty

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