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“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
“Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Variant: Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
Equinoctial Regions of America (1814-1829)
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Victor Hugo book Things Seen
Often attributed to Churchill, this thought was originally expressed by the French author Victor Hugo in Villemain (1845), as follows: You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
Villemain is a brief segment taken from Hugo’s Choses Vues (Things Seen), a running journal Hugo kept of events he witnessed. The original French versions of these journals were published after Hugo's death.
Misattributed
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Thiis was published without credit in The Best Loved Poems of the American People (1936) with the title "Friendship", and since that time has sometimes been misattributed http://www.geonius.com/eliot/quotes.html to Eliot; it is actually an adaptation of lines by Dinah Craik, in A Life for a Life (1859): <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Context: Oh, the comfort —<br>the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person —<br>having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,<br>but pouring them all right out,<br>just as they are,<br>chaff and grain together;<br>certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them,<br>keep what is worth keeping,<br>and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
“Wordless,
Infinite —
You.
You intensify
everything.
You are
fire
burning
all that
is left
of my
heart.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Variant: The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Source: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power
Context: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
“I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter