Miriam Toews Quotes

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

Miriam Toews

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• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • High
  • Nice

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Want

• 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

• My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Education

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• I have a love for boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Boxing

• I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Day
  • Write

• A sexy shoe is one that men like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Men
  • Sexy
  • Shoe

• Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Women
  • Violence

• ’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • City
  • Sweet

• Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

  

  James Carville
  • Important
  • Psychology

• My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Fear

• I'm always working hard.

  

  Chloe Kim

• A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

  

  Ann Brashares
  • Beautiful
  • Growing
  • Tree

• I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Life

• Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • Important
  • Support

• We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

  

  Laurent Fabius
  • Wish
  • Model

• Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Political
  • Brain

• If I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag. However, we have a First Amendment which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged. And it is addressed, in particular, to speech critical of the government.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• The cross calls humanity to stop trying to make God's kingdom happen through coercion and force, which are always self-defeating in the end, and instead, to welcome it through self-sacrifice and vulnerability.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Humanity
  • Force
  • Coercion

• It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Life
  • Grief

• Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

  

  Danny McBride
  • Good
  • Confidence

• But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Grief
  • Mushrooms