Matthew Pearl Quotes

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Matthew Pearl

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• I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Like
  • Never
  • Feel

• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • God
  • Faith
  • Know

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Apple

• Amateurs hope, professionals work.

  

  Garson Kanin
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Professionals

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Men
  • Experience

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Family
  • Human
  • Unity

• The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Book
  • Holy

• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • American
  • Name
  • Irish

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Mexico
  • Territory

• I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Money
  • Birthday
  • Bank

• The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Keys

• Therefore, broadly speaking, males invest less and seek quantity of mates, while females invest more and seek quality of mates.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Quality

• Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Truth
  • Strong

• I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: 'If fate happens to toss you a lightbulb, use it to light the path of others, for they will use theirs to light the path of you. With your light together with mine, it's two times as bright and twice as strong.'

  

  Matthew Underwood
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.

  

  Hafez
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Light

• Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Lies