Betty Williams Quotes

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

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• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Find
  • Ignorance
  • News

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• We kind of like the new Outkast.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Kind
  • Like
  • New

• The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Like
  • Seem

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • High
  • Hair

• When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Pretty
  • Night
  • Band

• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Time
  • Music
  • Night

• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Night

• Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Trying
  • Relationship
  • Winning

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Heart
  • Summer
  • Spring

• 'Cause baby now we got bad blood.You know it used to be mad love.So take a look at what you've done.'Cause baby now we got bad blood.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Baby

• Mrs Hickmann was inclined to forgive Patrick the apparent purposelessness of his life and the sinister pallor of his complexion, when she considered that he has an income of one hundred thousand pounds a year, and came from a family which, although it had done nothing since, had seen the Norman invasion from the winning side.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Life
  • Family
  • Done

• The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

  

  Betty Williams
  • Done
  • Peace