Mary Karr Quotes

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

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• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • You
  • Know
  • Bus

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• 'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Character
  • Career
  • Singer

• I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Great
  • Love
  • Mum

• I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Day
  • Look
  • Camera

• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Kindness

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Human
  • Said
  • Pressure

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Better

• Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • School
  • Art
  • Thought

• I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Art
  • History
  • Poetry

• If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Game
  • Man

• But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Work
  • God
  • Truth

• The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Society
  • Religion

• Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Party
  • Trust
  • Financial

• I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.

  

  Ali Larter
  • Boyfriend

• It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

  

  Mary Karr
  • God
  • Believe
  • Prayer