Mitch Albom Quotes

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Mitch Albom

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Great
  • Father
  • Joy

• For makeup, I swear by a base of Embryolisse, Nars concealer, that Bobbie Brown foundation stick, Pat's highlighter, a brow fill-in with dark brown eyeshadow and angle brush, a groom with Anastasia brow gel, an eyelash curl, and two swipes of drugstore mascara.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Dark
  • Makeup
  • Foundation

• It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • American
  • History
  • Year

• I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Home
  • Company
  • Puppy

• Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, - roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • World
  • Evil
  • Dark

• I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • May
  • Small

• 'Miracles, signs, wonders, deliverance and healing cannot be exchanged with money.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Money
  • Healing

• You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present

• But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Control

• I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• If people see that I'm fully committed to my chosen charities and fully engaged in their issues, maybe they'll click a link to find out more.

  

  David Harewood
  • People

• I've done 70 different characters on my podcast. But in terms of characters that I revisit a lot, I think there are 10 that I know more in-depth.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Different
  • Done

• I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • May
  • Political
  • Law

• I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Great

• Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • History
  • Things
  • Slavery

• I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

  

  LeBron James
  • Up
  • City
  • Single

• I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.

  

  Peter Eisenman

• I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • America
  • Nice

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• 'It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh,' said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, 'for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Sleep

• Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Intellect

• People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

  

  Mitch Albom
  • People
  • Culture
  • Economy