Olive Schreiner Quotes

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

Olive Schreiner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: south african
  • Birth: March 24, 1855 - December 11, 1920

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Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Jim Mattis

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My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

Joe Montana

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My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

John Malkovich

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I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

Michael Gambon

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What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

Stanley Schmidt

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I want the undisputed belt.

Jose Aldo

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Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

Diane Greene

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You find inspiration everywhere. The best inspiration is the people you grew up with. Nobody else knows about you than when you were just regular, everyday people. That's where most of it comes from.

Bray Wyatt

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Someone can do three episodes of 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' then turn around and book a primetime show. That's happening all the time.

Ashley Jones

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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Alison Bechdel

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More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

Peter Singer

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I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

Scooter Braun

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