Edith Wharton Quotes

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Edith Wharton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

Topics

TimePeopleLongSayMoreAsk

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

John Ortberg

LifeDeathDestinyKindThroughOwn

Isn't it great to go race for 16 days straight?

Robby Gordon

GreatGoRaceDaysStraight

'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing.

Josh Fox

CultureDaySpringAmericanDoing

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

Jonathan Nolan

YouGoWantInfiniteMoviesBeyond

Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion.

Joko Widodo

ReligionDemocracyWorldIslamAny

History informs where we are and how we got here.

Dee Rees

HistoryWhereHereGotHowInforms

Some instinct has told me I need to live in a world that isn't consumed with reading about myself or anyone else or someone's opinion about something. I need to be clear of that. It's just healthier for me. I feel happier.

Christopher Guest

LiveMyselfMeOpinionWorldFeel

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Claude Chabrol

ColorsColorYouWantDifficultGet

In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

Brian Behlendorf

ProcessTrueDevelopmentWayOpen

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

Archie Panjabi

EatingLovedFatNeverGoingWeight

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Moshe Dayan

PeaceRoadLongTraveledTable

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Martha Beck

ChildCaringResultPowerfulQuick

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