Joy Fielding Quotes

The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

Joy Fielding

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• Reaching

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• When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Up
  • Parents

• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Between

• Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Most

• I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Unique
  • Trees
  • Gum

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

• I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Work
  • Giving

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Father

• Aber Demokratie ist nicht immer eine Sache von einsamen Entscheidungen, sondern in der Regel ein Geschäft der Meinungsbildung vieler.

  

  Angela Merkel

• How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

  

  David Gergen
  • Future
  • Heaven

• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Great
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

  

  Jacques Santer
  • Help

• As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

• Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Mother
  • Challenge

• It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Character

• I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Boy

• I grew up very inspired by 'Superman One' and by kind of the promise of the genre of what a superhero origin story can do.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Up
  • Inspired
  • Promise

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.

  

  Beck
  • Up
  • Kids
  • American

• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Money

• Wrong is for other people.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Other

• The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

  

  Joy Fielding
  • Control
  • Give Up
  • Reaching