Katherine Boo Quotes

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

Katherine Boo

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• I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

  

  Quinton Aaron
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  • Life
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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

  

  Ralph Boston
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• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Life
  • Real
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• As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
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• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rose

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Career
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• One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
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• Where there is love there is life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Love
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• The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Moment

• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Life
  • Human

• In high school, you at least have to get up at a reasonable hour and show up at places on time. College, on the other hand, gave me the sense that I could complete major assignments at 2 A.M. without suffering any repercussions, along with the erroneous idea that in real life, things started after one in the afternoon.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Education
  • Hand

• You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • World
  • War
  • History

• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Up
  • War
  • Destruction

• I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

  

  Katherine Boo
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Control