Farley Mowat Quotes

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

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• Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Power
  • Plants
  • Be Prepared

• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Process
  • Clear

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Family
  • Training
  • Yourself

• I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Fight
  • Working
  • Hard

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

  

  Anne Stevenson

• A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • History
  • Financial
  • Recovery

• I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Doubt

• I think, probably, socially, in some ways New York may be the least American city. It represents too many things that Americans really don't entirely want in their lives.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • May
  • American
  • City

• I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Writing
  • Die
  • Works