Marjorie Liu Quotes

Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one's heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That's strength.

Marjorie Liu

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• Risk
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• Integrity

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• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Look
  • Priority

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Thought
  • Human
  • White

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • World
  • New
  • Saying

• Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Me
  • Accept

• Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Time
  • Children
  • Learn

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Long
  • Real

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Like
  • New
  • Looking

• From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Family
  • Character
  • Mother

• Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Great
  • Music
  • Movie

• All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • Together
  • Band

• I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

  

  John Clayton
  • Time

• Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one's heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That's strength.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Help