Sara Paretsky Quotes

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

Sara Paretsky

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• I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Support

• I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Game
  • College

• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Better

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Think

• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Character
  • Broken
  • Laws

• I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Time
  • School
  • Game

• I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Up
  • Creative
  • Commitment

• If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • May
  • Party
  • Problem

• I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Me
  • Songs

• Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected but again money is not something that drives me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Money
  • Value

• Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

  

  James Madison
  • May
  • Nature
  • Control

• The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Business

• I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Game
  • Tennis

• We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • World

• When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Fear

• Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Innovations
  • Healthcare system
  • Chronic Diseases

• People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • People
  • Heart
  • Littles

• I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.

  

  Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda
  • Professional

• Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Kindness
  • Stranger
  • Kinder