Mercedes Lackey Quotes

Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

Mercedes Lackey

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• We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• I don't know what's on the other side.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Know
  • Side
  • Other

• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Grandfather
  • Boxes
  • Failed

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Summer

• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Succeed

• My daughter is a very adventurous eater. I'm not the guy who sits around lamenting that all my kid will eat it is Tater Tots and chicken nuggets. With my kid, it's more a capricious and whimsical decision-making.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Guy
  • Decision
  • Daughter

• You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Character
  • You
  • Comfortable

• Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Progress

• One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • New York

• Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Long
  • Taken

• So I'm going to say my prayers tonight before I go to sleep. I hope you'll do the same. I believe if we do that, we'll all have less to worry about tomorrow.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Sleep

• As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

  

  Lee Marvin
  • People
  • Movie
  • Girl

• I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Great
  • Risk

• When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Mind
  • Meditation
  • Clouds

• I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

  

  Lil' Romeo
  • Pool

• My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Mother

• I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don't fool me. The hurt doesn't show But the pain still grows It's no stranger to you and me.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Up
  • Why
  • Pain

• Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Wells
  • Damn
  • Microphones

• You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Live
  • Money
  • Wells

• My secretary stopped and got gas (Wednesday) for $2.67. (Yesterday at) the same gas station, she got gas again. It was $3.12, ... It has really gotten very, very restrictive to people. It's really hurting. ... My impression, of course, is that they have certainly gone up more than they should have.

  

  Andrew Spano
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Impression

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

  

  Mercedes Lackey
  • Hurt
  • Wells
  • Seeing