Mary Harris Jones Quotes

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

Mary Harris Jones

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• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Long
  • Struggle
  • Alive

• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Angry

• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Year
  • Poker

• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Myself

• There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Good
  • True
  • Thought

• I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Hit
  • Elephant
  • Bull

• Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Wonder

• My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Writing
  • Understand
  • Writer

• It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Quiet

• The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Ideas
  • Sense
  • Activity

• My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Dad
  • Years
  • Corporation

• Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Gay
  • Worst

• I'm an urban act.

  

  Maluma
  • Act
  • Urban

• When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Strong
  • You

• What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Focus

• I believe that the want of our age is not more 'free' handling of the Bible, but more 'reverent' handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Free

• The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Deep
  • Cold
  • Gold

• I want to do a darker, pop soul kind of feel.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Soul

• Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Power

• One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.

  

  Frederic Louis Sauser
  • Sometimes
  • Living
  • Mysterious

• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

  

  Mary Harris Jones