Abby Sunderland Quotes

I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

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• The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Peace

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Think
  • Year
  • Grow

• I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Small
  • Community
  • Focus

• People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Dalai Lama

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Childhood

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Women
  • Stand

• Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Business
  • Shaving

• All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Smile

• It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Children
  • Marriage

• The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.

  

  Charles Studd
  • God
  • Christian

• By Suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • World
  • Art
  • Feeling

• I just have to come clean and admit I am an extremely, painfully slow writer. I have this unfortunate - or fortunate, I'm not sure which is correct - habit of editing while I'm writing which everyone tells me that I shouldn't do that. But that's just the way I write and I think it's important to stay true to your own writing style and momentum.

  

  Nami Mun
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Writing

• Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Thinking
  • Language
  • Vehicle

• My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

  

  Iman
  • Faith
  • Daughter
  • Flower

• Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • God
  • Death
  • Earth

• I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

  

  Abby Sunderland
  • Faith
  • Wiser
  • Resilient