Nancy Farmer Quotes

Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

Nancy Farmer

• Hope
• Die
• Understand
• Animals
• Consent

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• I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Girl
  • Bike
  • Fighter

• I would like my kids to study well.

  

  Vijay
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Study

• I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • Win

• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Important
  • Start

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• I believe in forgiveness.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Feel
  • Weird
  • Connection

• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Change
  • Husband

• To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Work
  • American
  • True

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Successful
  • Sacrifice
  • Busy

• I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Lost
  • Face
  • Wrestling

• I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Like
  • Rather
  • Cardio

• I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Character
  • Study

• I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Start

• I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Always

• Pups think rules are suggestions.

  

  Nalini Singh

• No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • May

• Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Understand