Mary Stewart Quotes

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

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• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Will

• What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Power
  • Government
  • Military

• No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Never
  • Matter
  • Grass

• I am definitely a worrier.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Definitely
  • Worrier

• The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Leadership

• 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • War
  • Mean
  • Struggle

• Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • World
  • Writing
  • Working

• I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.

  

  Gary Owens
  • Want
  • Laugh
  • View

• A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Elephant

• Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Well
  • Individuality

• When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

  

  Tacitus
  • Laws
  • Most
  • Corrupt

• We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Like
  • Unexpected

• Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Criticism

• The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Book
  • Sunshine
  • Twilight

• No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Revenge

• I thought how terrible it would have been if, as could so easily have happened, I had died without knowing this depth of satisfaction, this other person that I had just discovered within myself. It was worth any price, any consequence.

  

  V. S. Naipaul

• I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. Boisgeloup, winter 1934.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Done
  • Picture

• Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Home
  • Trust

• We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Heaven

• There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Heart
  • Road
  • Grief

• When you are unable to control your feelings. Tears show how genuine your emotions are.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Control
  • Feelings
  • Emotions

• Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Movie

• It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

  

  Mary Stewart