Mary Beth Whitehead Quotes

I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.

Mary Beth Whitehead

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• We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Power
  • Help
  • Eye

• I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Give
  • Finished

• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Human
  • Laugh
  • Absurd

• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Gold

• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Forever
  • Economists

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Challenge

• I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Big
  • Splash

• I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • See
  • Islamic

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Friendships

• O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Wind

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • College
  • Three

• My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • You
  • Road
  • First

• I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.

  

  John Abercrombie
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • World
  • Different
  • Art

• Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.

  

  Susan Polis Schutz
  • Perfect
  • Realize
  • Potential

• A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
  • Car

• Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Weird

• I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.

  

  Mary Beth Whitehead
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Weird