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Jane Porter Quotes

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: 1776 - 1850

Topics

Knowledge Men Flame Without Lamp

Up until the age of 13, girls are confident, and they feel like they can conquer the world. Then adolescence sets in, and girls lose their confidence. And 'Seventeen' is really about them taking an hour out of their month, unplugging, lying on their bed, and reading a magazine that believes in them.

Confidence Age World Reading Conquer

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

Love Pain Suffering Doing Long Used

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

Music Entertainment Escapism

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.

Love Time Personality People World

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

Success Thinking Short Comedy You

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.

Family Time Basketball Long Centered

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Shirley MacLaine

Best Way Old Something Get Best Way

To see hundreds of people come out in the cold at the University of Missouri to block a few so-called Christians who came to protest against me shows you how love conquers hate.

Love Hate People Me Cold You

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Sweet Eye Look Know Will Coming

The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

Douglas Rushkoff

Time Free Better Journalism Need

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

David Wilkerson

Children Men America Poor Israel

As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese.

Love Cool Cheese Want Kid Kids

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