Mary Webb Quotes

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

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• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Remarkable
  • Bon Jovi
  • Jon

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Strive

• One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Work
  • Man
  • Price

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Money
  • Home
  • Yourself

• Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Help
  • Rules

• Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • People
  • Hate
  • Lovers

• I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Think
  • Myself
  • I Think

• I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Like
  • Head
  • Top

• My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • Control
  • Drug
  • Research

• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hate

• Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Government
  • Following
  • Even

• We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Healthy

• I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • School
  • Identity

• I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Work
  • Control
  • Environment

• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  

  Moshe Dayan
  • Soul
  • Freedom
  • Oxygen

• The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Nature

• I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

  

  David Horsey
  • Up
  • Morning

• If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

  

  Mary Webb
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