Mavis Leno famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.
-- Mavis Leno

#Agreement #Differences #Silence
When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?
-- Mavis Leno

#Father #Believe #Merit
Finding love is a two-part process. The first part is to find the right person. The second part is to be the right person.
-- Mavis Leno

#Love Is #Two #Finding Love
Tenacity isn't just the most important thing, it's the only thing.
-- Mavis Leno

#Perseverance #Important #Tenacity
If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'
-- Mavis Leno

#Might #Matter #World

I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustainâ€”especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.
As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan,
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.
Only silence perfects silence.
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.
These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.
When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

Mavis Leno famous quotes

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