Mary Astell Quotes

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Mom
  • Bike
  • Never Forget

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Face

• I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Up
  • You
  • Food

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Law

• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Moving
  • Thought
  • Worries

• Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Hate
  • Others
  • Interfere

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

  

  Plutarch
  • God
  • Enemy
  • Afraid

• But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Pressure

• Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.

  

  Krysten Ritter

• Bio-terrorism is a threat.

  

  Anthony Fauci

• Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Interesting
  • Humans
  • Manifestation

• God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

  

  Mary Astell
  • God
  • Design