John Irving Quotes

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

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• I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Good
  • Laughing
  • Grew

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Remember
  • Victory

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wants

• I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Success
  • Light

• We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Change
  • Evolve
  • Too

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Care
  • Gay

• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Pain
  • Healing

• America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • Time
  • Country
  • May

• I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Time
  • God
  • Why

• The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Nature
  • Fear

• If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

  

  John Irving
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage