Maeve Binchy Quotes

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

Maeve Binchy

• Happiness
• Knowing
• Grateful
• Appreciating

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• I don't get recognised that much in the street.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Get
  • Street
  • Recognised

• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Job
  • Know

• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • America
  • Political
  • City

• Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Money
  • American
  • America

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • You
  • Right Time

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Day
  • Party
  • Brand

• I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feminist
  • Saying

• Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Anger

• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Children
  • May
  • Age

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Mean

• I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Home
  • Black
  • Myself

• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Movies
  • Looking
  • Editing

• The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Way
  • Triumph

• No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

  

  Elisabeth Sladen
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Universe

• Happiness is the highest good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Highest Good

• One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loves us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Death
  • Happiness
  • Master

• As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Science
  • Questions
  • Loss

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful