Mary Lyon Quotes

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

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• Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Chinese
  • Making
  • Nobody

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Work
  • She

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Enough

• I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Water
  • Rose

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Great
  • Man
  • Beginning

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Innovation
  • New Things

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Relationship
  • Taken
  • Comfort

• I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Years
  • Shy
  • Publicity

• The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children, want to know what we're made out of, how it works, and why the universe is the way it is.

  

  David Gross
  • People
  • Children
  • Why

• Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • Universe
  • Moments
  • Facts

• School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Education
  • Universe
  • Vampire

• The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • Fear
  • Direction
  • The Lord

• There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

  

  Mary Lyon
  • Fear
  • Universe