Emily Procter Quotes

I've always known I was adopted.

Emily Procter

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• The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Power
  • Strong

• I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Stop

• I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Day

• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Revolution
  • Socialism
  • Our

• Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Time
  • War
  • Hand

• There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Know
  • Yourself

• The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • War
  • King
  • Vietnam War

• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Man
  • Day

• I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Like
  • Eye
  • Bold

• Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• Peace the offspring is of Power.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Power
  • Peace

• A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge

• What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Silence

• All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

  

  John Adams
  • America
  • Nature
  • Honor

• Therefore, I believe that we both have a heavy obligation to seek earnestly the path to peace. It is in response to that obligation that I am writing directly to you.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Peace

• Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • Success
  • Path
  • Ambition

• Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Life
  • Son

• My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • People
  • Important
  • Children

• No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Eyes

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • Love
  • Think

• I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Evil
  • Decision
  • Hell

• Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

  

  Hafez
  • Life
  • Hope
  • House

• I've always known I was adopted.

  

  Emily Procter