"I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care."

-- Maureen Johnson

#Beautiful Quotes #Caring Quotes #Two Quotes

“More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.”
“I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.”

Source : Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.
“If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity.”
“Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted female culture that should remain separate from male culture, partly because it is different than or superior to male culture? [Â¶] Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves.”

Source : "Women And Madness". Book by Phyllis Chesler, 2005.
“What has reasoning to do with painting?”
“I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.”
“You have so many capabilities & potential. Start celebrating the life God has given you!”
“There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary...”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.688, Penguin UK

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