Alex Witchel Quotes

The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

Alex Witchel

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• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Money
  • War
  • Political

• I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Rock
  • Look

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Thanks
  • Wolf

• I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Better
  • Grow
  • Comfort Zone

• Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Country
  • Why
  • Better

• I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Control

• Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Friends
  • Weird
  • Thinks

• You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Saying
  • Radio

• I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Old
  • Talk

• I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Help
  • Myself

• It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Rest

• I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Life
  • Long
  • Drawing

• Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Bring

• The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

  

  Alex Witchel
  • Life
  • Older
  • Crevices