Mary Stewart Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
-
I am definitely a 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.
-
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
-
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
-
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
-
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.'
-
Candour is the brightest gem of 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
-
We must love or we grow ill.
-
Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.
-
Tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. This is your campaign.
-
I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.
-
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
