Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
-
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
-
So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
-
I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
-
In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
-
When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
-
It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
-
As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
-
I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
-
Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
-
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
-
Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
-
Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
-
Birth was the death of him.
-
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.
-
Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
-
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
-
I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
-
We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman’s life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb; then why would we allow a woman to determine a man’s life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb?
-
Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.
-
I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.
-
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
-
I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly contingent upon how normal the person living there might be. I don't think you have to look far in any city to see people looking for the right answer in the wrong place.
-
But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
