Miriam Toews Quotes

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

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• God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Judging

• Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Medicine
  • Doctor

• You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Different
  • Film

• All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feeling
  • Growing
  • Myself

• It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Existence
  • Perfection

• Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Perspective
  • Abuse
  • Holocaust

• It's a mindset, it's all in the mind.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Mind
  • Mindset

• It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Endless

• We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs. It is vital and dynamic. And it works. We have the means of shaping the world in our pattern. If we do, freedom will be assured for all men. The decision is in the hands of this generation. It is a challenge to our political competence. For Western civilization it is the greatest challenge of all time.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Men
  • Political
  • Strong

• Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Wonder

• Is there anything more important than a child?

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Important
  • Child

• Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Ends
  • Prudence
  • Moderates

• My life is good, so I ain’t worrying about it. … Well, good luck.

  

  Beetlejuice
  • Life
  • Good
  • Worry About

• I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Oneself

• The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Born
  • Capacity

• Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Asking
  • Oneself