Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom - to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have - or need - answers.

Madeleine L'Engle

• People
• Different
• Important
• Compassion

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• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • You
  • Years

• Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Trying
  • American
  • Environment

• America is not the center of the universe.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Universe
  • Center

• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Leadership
  • Rockefeller Plaza

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Girls

• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Kind
  • Poverty
  • Argument

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Taking care of yourself is so important.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Important
  • Care
  • Yourself

• How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Four
  • The Beatles

• How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom - to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have - or need - answers.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Different
  • Important