Miriam Toews Quotes

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

Miriam Toews

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• If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • You
  • Stability

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • History
  • Career
  • Over

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Happen

• Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • King
  • Talking
  • Bias

• I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Loved

• I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Better
  • Now

• If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

  

  Betty White
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Lost

• In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID. We don't have a national ID.

  

  Pete Gallego

• Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Mind

• What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Lost

• What the Obama administration's policies have really been oriented towards have always been towards providing benefits continuing consumption. What this country needs really is a policy which stresses investments.

  

  Bill Gross
  • Country

• In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Humanity

• If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

  

  Antonis Samaras

• The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

  

  Jo Brand

• I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

  

  Mawra Hocane
  • Focus

• Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

  

  John Robinson
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this king often turns manageable failures into disasters.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Bad
  • High

• Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

  

  George Gurdjieff
  • Energy
  • Laughter

• The God we worship is Jesus - He is the image of the invisible God - and if we dare seek Him for who He really is rather than pursue an idea of Him that fits into our tidy boxes, He will blow our minds.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Sweet
  • Summer
  • Distance

• Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Laughter
  • Worship
  • Forgiving