Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.
Quotes to Explore
-
In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
-
I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
-
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
-
Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
-
I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
-
When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
-
A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.
-
When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
-
Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!
-
I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
-
To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
-
You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
-
It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
-
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
-
I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
-
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
-
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
-
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
-
I love my play 'The Trials and Tribulations Of A Trailer Trash Housewife' because I get these letters from all of these women who literally have left their spouses who were abusing them. You know, I'm just breaking up marriages right and left. But, that need to be broken up.
-
It's about going to where your voters are.
-
I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.
-
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
-
I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose things and to wake people up. And so I think that that can feel like a violation to the people you love the most.
-
Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.
