Maeve Binchy Quotes

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

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• Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Problems
  • Process

• The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Day

• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • America
  • Visionary

• I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Believe
  • Positive

• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Home

• After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Political
  • Better
  • Media

• We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Normal

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Enjoy

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Want
  • Act
  • Wednesday

• Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Moderation

• Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Man
  • Determination
  • Quiet

• As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Kid
  • Three
  • Month

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Moon
  • Fly

• I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Comedy

• I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Want
  • Play
  • Waiting

• I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Play