M. L. Stedman Quotes

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

M. L. Stedman

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• Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Water
  • Powerful
  • Ocean

• I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Right
  • Read

• Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

  

  Major Owens
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Tools

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Good
  • Change
  • Vision

• You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Change
  • Risk

• I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • School
  • Why
  • Home

• It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Me
  • Learn

• The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Me
  • Everything
  • Now

• My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I have noticed that my likes and dislikes do not create any great excitement. And how people try to get away when I attempt to talk!

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Great

• It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• And we hold these truths to be self-evident:Number one- George W. Bush is not president.Number two- America is not a true democracy.And, Number three- the media is not fooling me.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • America
  • True
  • Democracy

• The spirit walks of every day deceased.

  

  Edward Young

• Like some magistrate grown gray in office,Calmly he contemplates alike the justAnd unjust, with indifference he notesEvil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Good

• In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Work
  • School

• I think good-looking naked ladies turn on the majority of men.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Men
  • Thinking

• We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the difference between something that's truly progressive and something that's just trying to get us to buy a product. Capitalism, ultimately, it's not about equality, it's not about social justice.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • Justice
  • Capitalism
  • Consumers

• When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

  

  Carl Levin
  • War
  • Decision
  • Intelligence

• One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

  

  Jean Rostand
  • God

• When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Honor

• You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

  

  M. L. Stedman