Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Deep
  • Acting

• There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Very
  • Budget
  • Documentary

• Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Control
  • Model

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • War
  • Society

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Desire

• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Book
  • Education
  • Friend

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Light
  • Fashion
  • Try

• Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Never

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

  

  Harold Prince
  • May
  • Business
  • Star

• I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Career
  • Me

• We can get our hands dirty, and we can have fun.

  

  Chip Taylor
  • Fun
  • Hands
  • Dirty

• Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Time
  • Music

• American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the 'American Trinity': 'Liberty,' 'In God We Trust,' and 'E Pluribus Unum' ('Out of Many, One'), the three values that appear on all American coins.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • God
  • American
  • Trust

• I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • God

• Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Life
  • Success