"I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice."

--

Miep Gies

#Choices Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.”
“There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.”

Source : Source: dutchsoccersite.org
“What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?”
“Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.”
“The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.”
“There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.”
“I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.”
“Good drama should sandpaper the mind.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

You may also like:

Adolf Hitler
Former Chancellor of Germany
Anne Frank
Author
Elie Wiesel
Professor
Erin Gruwell
Teacher
Helen Keller
Author
Oskar Schindler
Industrialist
Otto Frank
Businessman
Primo Levi
Chemist
Zlata FilipoviÄ‡
Writer