Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.Mignon McLaughlin
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
K. A. Applegate -
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable -
I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
Kacey Musgraves -
Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
J. B. Pritzker -
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
Warren Mitchell
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I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
Zoe Saldana -
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
N. T. Wright -
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
Fannie Hurst -
Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Christ's Passion, viewed from within, is of a diversity that the biblical texts and images leave hidden; but numerous mystics through the centuries have been allowed to experience a great deal of it in ever-varying aspects-if only by drops, as it were, compared with the Son of God.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
Alexander Pope -
I have no love for the Jews, but they have great influence everywhere. It is better to leave them alone. Hitler's antisemitism has already brought him more enemies than is necessary.
Benito Mussolini -
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Charlie Haden -
If the day ever comes when I am world No. 1, then great, but for me, the biggest dream was to win a slam, and I did it.
Angelique Kerber
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I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.
Katharine McPhee -
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell -
I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.
Jason Statham -
There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
Barbara Coloroso -
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Mignon McLaughlin