Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers

Madeleine L'Engle

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• We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • People
  • Work
  • She

• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Years
  • Far

• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Up
  • Music
  • City

• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Vision
  • Capital
  • Scarce

• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Know
  • Me
  • Weekend

• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Bad

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Nature
  • Strong
  • Girl

• Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Learning

• But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

  

  Philip Levine
  • Work

• If I'm not in work, I don't wear any make-up.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Up
  • Work

• There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, 'I could do that.' And maybe they could do that. But they're not.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • College
  • Mom
  • Study

• Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Nature
  • Alone
  • Pain

• As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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