Emma Bonino Quotes

I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

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• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Like
  • Relationships
  • Sure

• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Impossible

• Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Appreciate

• My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Street
  • Halloween
  • Nightmare

• Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

  

  Ovid
  • Wrong
  • Suffer
  • Often

• I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Television
  • Watch

• I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Tailor

• My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Road
  • Supportive
  • Agent

• People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Want
  • Expectations

• Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Change
  • Literature
  • Ethical

• The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Real
  • Imagination

• It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Aesthetic

• And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

  

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell
  • Good
  • Important
  • Death

• To be a good mother - a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Faith
  • Conflict
  • Personal

• I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.

  

  Ivanka Trump
  • Children
  • Mom
  • To Be

• Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Attention
  • Draws
  • Pun

• I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

  

  Emma Bonino