Maeve Binchy Quotes

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

Maeve Binchy

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• I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

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• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Black
  • Simple

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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  • Education
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• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
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• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Lost

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • You
  • Matter
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• Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Bad
  • Police
  • Nobody

• The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Think
  • Stupid
  • Internet

• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • God
  • Fear

• Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • May
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• I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Day

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Pretty
  • Ugly

• I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

  

  Masayoshi Son

• At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Way
  • Journey
  • Souls

• Craig Ferguson: Do you do therapy?Hugh Laurie: I see a gentleman once a week.Craig Ferguson: I love it, I'm a great convert.Hugh Laurie: Therapy?Craig Ferguson: No, just seeing a gentleman once a week.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Great
  • Gentleman

• The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Journey