Mary Oliver Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
-
Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
-
The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
-
Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
-
I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
-
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
-
Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
-
If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
-
I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.
-
I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
-
I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.
-
I think the first duty of society is justice.
-
Every man has a long list of things that should be done, but which he knows can't be done. Yet he continues to talk about them as long as he lives.
-
My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
-
One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
-
When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.
-
He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
-
Look under the 'Love and Friendship' section and see dozens of cards designed for women to send to women, most bashing men, and virtually none saying anything loving about men.
-
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
-
Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.
-
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
-
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
-
I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
