Megan Hilty Quotes
I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.
Quotes to Explore
-
My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
-
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
-
In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
-
Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
-
People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.
-
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
-
A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
-
My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
-
We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.
-
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
-
I don't do my own Instagram.
-
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
-
'Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?'No.'Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.'
-
I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps 'Oh look at that!' Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.
-
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
-
I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself - to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.
-
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
-
Mobile is something I think about all the time now.
-
My brother Gary, who was my coach, five years my elder, studied human movements at Queensland University in Brisbane. We used to train together every day, and we'd train for so long that at the end of a session, we would physically almost collapse.
-
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
-
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
-
Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.
-
To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.
-
I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.
