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

• When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Idea
  • Dealing
  • Diseases

• We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.

  

  George W. Merck
  • Achievement
  • Creation
  • Diseases

• There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• 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