Nora Roberts (Eleanor Marie Robertson) Quotes

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Nora Roberts

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• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Control
  • Find
  • Early

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Friends
  • Party
  • Question

• I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Control

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Party
  • Government

• The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Control
  • Understanding
  • Study

• What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Control
  • Hand
  • Best

• As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Children
  • Book
  • Kids

• I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Dresses

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Different
  • America
  • Party

• If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • You
  • Control
  • Tax

• When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Home
  • Party
  • Day

• I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of a global thing, and I think it's no particular political party's fault. People have been left behind, and in America, we're used to going forward. It's always like we're going to be better; the next generation's going to be better.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Need

• There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Job
  • Hope

• Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• The functions of the president are prescribed by the Constitution, but his real achievements are not set by the letter of the law. They are determined rather by his personality, the weight of his influence, his capacity for managing men, and the strength and effectiveness of the party forces behind him.

  

  Charles A. Beard
  • Men
  • Real
  • Law

• It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Soul
  • Protection
  • Devotion

• When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Society

• What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a lot, I don't have to learn any foreign languages, and it doesn't shoot in Minneapolis in February. That's mainly what I look for.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Long
  • February

• Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

  

  Nora Roberts
  • Control
  • Party
  • Tragedy