Mary Hunter Austin Quotes

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

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• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Game
  • College

• I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Want
  • Deep
  • End

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Music
  • Know
  • Jazz

• I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.

  

  T.I.
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Attention

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • You
  • Talk

• Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Problems
  • Shy

• You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Hands

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
  • House

• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • God
  • Men
  • Compassion

• What's in the past is in the past... let it be, let it be. We all grow up.

  

  Jeremy Miles Ferguson Amen
  • Past
  • Grows

• In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Prayer

• I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Sex

• I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Door

• The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Life
  • Country
  • Fashion