Janette Turner Hospital Quotes

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Janette Turner Hospital

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• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Power
  • Friends

• If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Person

• Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Management
  • Objectives

• I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Meeting

• I mean, if we try to 'fluff up' 'Nikita?' We're done. If we try to 'fluff' 'Nikita,' I don't want to be involved and I don't want to watch the show.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Up
  • Done
  • Want

• I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Picture

• I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Try

• You don't want to get too wrapped up in that final destination. You want to enjoy the journey, enjoy the process, and just take it one step at a time.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Journey

• I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Why
  • Perfect

• The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • World
  • Service
  • Humanitarian

• After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Age

• Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Done
  • Action

• «We do what we can do means what exactly means, that we do what we can do.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.

  

  Albert Pike
  • Justice

• Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Friend

• When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Good

• La vieillerie poétique avait une bonne part dans mon alchimie du verbe.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I right? Not to be a tease, but the format is different from anything else I've seen out there, and the subject matter is hopefully boundless, eye-opening, and a little cathartic.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • World
  • Different

• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • True
  • Single

• Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals.

  

  Leila Janah
  • People
  • Hope
  • Poverty

• He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Elephant

• I'm not expecting a big sell-off but I do think that if we don't have a move toward economic growth and policies that will promote economic growth and get us out of this 2 percent world - we really need to see 4 percent, 5 percent - to see jobs created, and if we don't see that longer-term, yeah the market will sell-off...[but] I do think things are getting better. It's just been very slow.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • World
  • Growth
  • Jobs

• There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

  

  Janette Turner Hospital