"Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something."

-- Madeleine Albright

#Stupid Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.”
“You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.”
“..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long time. Writers only like to sniff their own turds. I am one of those. I don't even like to talk to writers, look at them or worse, listen to them. And the worst is to drink with them, they slobber all over themselves, really look piteous, look like they are searching for the wing of the mother. I'd rather think about death than about other writers. Far more pleasant.”
“I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.”
“White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.”
“With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse”
“Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.”

Source : John Owen (1825). “On the nature ... of indwelling sin in believers”, p.199
“I'm a competitive person.”

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