We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Care, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Understood, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Commonplace, Eternal, Mystery, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Curiosity, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Knowledge, One Thing, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Generations, Majority, Minorities, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one’s bag of precautions. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Bags, Superstitions, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, California, Vices, Youth, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Progress, Substance, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
… the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Forget, Irony, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Civilization, Class, Country, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Childhood, Grief, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Character, Fate, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Human, Passion, Power, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Manners, New York, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Baby, Race, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Lying, Pride, 0 - Gertrude Atherton Copy
Ah, cruel ’tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. - Anacreon Poet · Greece
TV’s great. I think the best stuff is happening on television. - Rob Reiner Actor, director, producer · USA
I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either. - Arnold Palmer Professional golfer · USA
So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that’s a powerful lesson. - Alice Barrett Actress
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. - E. M. Forster Novelist · United Kingdom
It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over. - Laini Taylor Author
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it’s not going to achieve immortality. - Thomas Beecham Conductor · England
There’s so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living. - Russell Baker Journalist · USA
Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children. - Alison Goldfrapp Musician · United Kingdom
