It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.
We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.
Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.
People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
But people are not butterflies, right. People are, well, more important than butterflies. We have opposable thumbs, hello. You can't possibly compare the sanctity of a human's life with that of a butterfly. In our culture you can and, indeed, must qu...
But when you’re in love, you’re not in control of what you think or say or do. And there is nothing I love more than control, and nothing I love less than not having it. So you tell me —what is a person like me supposed to do with a feeling lik...
No one has proved to me that my husband isn’t still alive somewhere in Southeast Asia. So, as far as I’m concerned, if even one man is alive, we own him more than this – than presuming him dead for the sake of tidying paperwork.
A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster i...
But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than those exchanged in letters between lovers or friends, or ...
I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*...
