H. T. Leslie Quotes

We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care, to get angry, is called forth like some muscle we weren't entirely aware we had.

Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

No good story is quite true.

I know some words floated through my ears, but my mind refused to absorb their meaning. I just shook my head slowly as the wall of pain washed over me, leaving me submerged and broken in the flood.

Success is not measured by who you are, only by the perception of what others think you are

I will never understand the determination behind a fake personality

Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.

The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppyyour mathematics is.

Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried!

Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.

It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife good mother good looking good tempered well groomed and unaggressive.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

To paraphrase the famous Walt saying, Cast Members are there to work so Guests can play.

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance.

At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

It takes a real designer to design for real women.

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.