Nancy Farmer Quotes

Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.

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• The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Single
  • Powerful
  • Impossible

• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Flying
  • Saying

• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Know
  • Universe
  • Design

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Play
  • Proud
  • Prejudice

• The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Charm

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Together

• I don't wear plaid shirts.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Wear
  • Shirts

• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • See
  • Leader

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Excuse

• Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • She
  • Game

• A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Man
  • Will
  • Bridge

• Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Diva

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • People

• I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are. As I see its broad fruitful farms, its humming factories, its gleaming cities, certainly it is easy to realize that we have achieved unequaled material progress in this great country.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Travel
  • Progress
  • Thanksgiving

• I want everyone to eat whatever makes them happy.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Happy

• It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

  

  Linus Roache
  • Up
  • Live
  • Real

• I said to the bankers, 'Listen, fellows, if I have a problem, then you have a problem. We have to find a way out or it's going to be a difficult time for both of us.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time

• Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Country
  • Choose
  • Bodyguard