Malachy McCourt Quotes

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

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• Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Want
  • Effort

• Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • America
  • You
  • See

• Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

  

  Allan Massie
  • Live
  • Today
  • Society

• Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Different
  • Financial
  • Rules

• It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Feeling
  • Wonder

• Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Style

• My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Occupation
  • Storyteller
  • Icon

• I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here." He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Trying
  • Hate
  • Missing

• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Commitment
  • Level
  • Organizations

• If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Optimum

• There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for power, they would be ineffective. Their task is not "seize power" (those who use this term show that they seek personal power for themselves) but to abolish the bases for power. Power to all means power to nobody in particular.

  

  Albert Meltzer
  • Power
  • Principles
  • Degradation

• I loved her for her silence. Or maybe I just understood it. And loved my father too, for the careful way he spoke. I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Silence
  • Loved
  • Understood

• I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Littles
  • Form
  • Lovely

• I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • My Father
  • Diseases
  • Alcoholic