Amelia Barr Quotes

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

Amelia Barr

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• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Earth
  • Computers
  • Studying

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Film
  • Role

• We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.

  

  Ian Axel
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • School
  • Home

• The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Parents
  • Christmas
  • Year

• When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Hope
  • Soul

• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

  

  Imran Khan
  • House
  • You
  • Fire

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Help
  • Everything
  • Deepest

• If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Up
  • Law
  • Service

• I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Careful
  • Spending
  • Sale

• I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Summer

• But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Alone

• The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • World
  • War
  • Trump

• After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Loved
  • Alcohol
  • Salt

• When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Interest

• You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Eyes

• There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• ... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Life
  • Good
  • Evil