#owe

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#gold #like #only #owes #praise

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#law #little #much #nature #power

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#power #sufficient #sufficient evidence #truth

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#built #effective #extremely #fight #losing

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

#happen #happens #i #just #make

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#answer #appointment #behalf #ceo #children

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#i #now #showed #theater #training

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#certainly #enough #get #go #good

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#bottom #continued #fine #gave #i

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#desire #even #failure #field #i