Jim Bolger Quotes

And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Home
  • Help
  • Food

• I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Process
  • Saying

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Different
  • Family
  • Friends

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Will
  • Sure
  • Glued

• Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • New

• There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Age
  • Old
  • Old Age

• One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Deep

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Better

• The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Forever
  • Fence

• Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Life
  • Death
  • Pain

• I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

  

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • Career
  • Creative
  • Process

• We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Time
  • Law

• If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

  

  Dominic Monaghan

• I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

  

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • Music
  • Character
  • King

• And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.

  

  Jim Bolger
  • People
  • Believe