Mary Oliver Quotes

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

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• By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Time
  • Job
  • Team

• There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Know
  • Child
  • Moment

• I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Best
  • Football
  • Say

• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Work
  • Book

• Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Deep

• Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • America
  • Future
  • Past

• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • True
  • Culture
  • Over

• But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • You
  • Page

• I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Black
  • Too Much

• As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Job
  • Future
  • House

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fault

• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Great
  • Country
  • Kids

• On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Year
  • September
  • Terrorism

• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Competition
  • Hypocrisy

• Everybody can be smart.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Smart

• This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Alone

• Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • May
  • Success
  • Feeling

• I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.

  

  Donald Miller
  • World
  • Believe
  • Health

• Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Done

• I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Alone