Mercedes Lackey Quotes

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Mercedes Lackey

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• Enlightened
• Inexperience

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• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Everything
  • Piano
  • Chopin

• ...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Success
  • Wish

• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logic

• Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • May
  • Courage

• We need to work together as social partners to focus on our economy by removing all the obstacles to investment and move South Africa to a higher level of growth.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Work
  • Together
  • Focus

• For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats

• I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• When you have kids, all your plans, everything that you do is for them to have fun.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Kids
  • Fun

• With all of the media and all of the pressures of the times, we have to have a spiritual foundation in order to survive. It's truly what I believe.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Believe
  • Mother

• They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

  

  Katie Couric
  • People
  • Fun
  • Reading

• We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

  

  Jerry Stiller
  • People
  • Together
  • Today

• When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Up
  • Country

• Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

  

  Jeff Landry
  • Why
  • Business
  • Job

• The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Humanity

• I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Action

• Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.'

  

  Ali Smith
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important thing probably isn't even on your agenda.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Today
  • Facts

• No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

  

  William Wilberforce
  • World
  • Men
  • Ignorance

• Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Ignorance
  • Sin
  • Fatal

• Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

  

  Mercedes Lackey
  • Ignorance
  • Overcoming
  • Enlightened