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

• My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Parents
  • Sense
  • Condition

• My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Success
  • Wisdom
  • Powerful

• We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" to be moved. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Feelings
  • Emotion
  • Grief

• The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

  

  Philip Sidney

• Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Money
  • Value

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

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Grief
  • Mushrooms