Susan Minot Quotes

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

Susan Minot

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• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • American
  • Looking

• Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Small
  • Change

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Back

• I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Pain
  • My Life

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Priorities

• The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• 'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Period
  • Dreams

• I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Life
  • Men
  • Husband

• I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Life
  • Project
  • Forward

• It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • God
  • May
  • Church

• What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Crime
  • Good Deeds

• The Trump brand is complicated because it conflates a personal brand with a corporate brand. That means that the Trump persona affects the corporate reputation in a more direct way than, say, Richard Branson's actions affect Virgin.

  

  John Quelch
  • Trump

• The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • School
  • Kids
  • Nice

• There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

  

  Susan Minot
  • Life
  • Wait
  • Waste