Maeve Binchy Quotes
Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Quotes to Explore
-
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
-
My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
-
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
-
You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
-
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
-
I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
-
There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
-
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
-
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
-
I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
-
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
-
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
-
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
-
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
-
Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
-
I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
-
I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
-
The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
-
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
-
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
-
Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
-
I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.
-
You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.
-
Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
