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

• 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

• 'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • You
  • Taken

• It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Cold
  • Police
  • Rules

• Sex game kinky, niggas call me Pinky

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Game
  • Sex
  • Games

• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

  

  Walter Wink
  • People
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Death
  • Flower
  • Dropping

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

  

  Martha Beck