Martha Beck Quotes

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

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• I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Barbie

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • See
  • Only

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Economic

• I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Think
  • Challenge

• As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Child
  • Values

• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Changes
  • Detail

• Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Different
  • Long
  • Day

• I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Think
  • Vanity

• My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Amazing

• One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Fake

• A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Trump
  • Would

• Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writing
  • Quality
  • Better

• I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • End
  • First
  • Year

• Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

  

  Mark Mobius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

  

  Meredith Brooks
  • Giving
  • Company
  • Equipment

• Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.

  

  Benjamin Creme
  • Earth
  • Nuclear
  • Global Warming

• I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • People
  • Cool

• In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

  

  Martha Beck