Kerry Greenwood Quotes

Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.

Kerry Greenwood

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• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Agreed
  • Fable

• Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Work
  • God
  • Mind

• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Conscience

• My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Real
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • People
  • Up
  • Walk

• Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Future
  • Faith

• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Friends
  • Age
  • City

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Values
  • motivation

• When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Game
  • You

• I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • God
  • Me

• Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • Different
  • Home

• They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Me
  • Create
  • I Can

• To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Patience

• The Beltway Right has entered into a civil union with Big Brother.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Brother

• There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Moments

• Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • She
  • Past
  • Stress

• I am responsible. Yes, I have chosen to be single.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Single
  • Responsible
  • Chosen

• I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Sex
  • Ugly
  • Dirty

• If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Death

• Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.

  

  Kerry Greenwood