Karen Kingsbury Quotes

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

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• So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Japanese
  • Companies
  • Lacking

• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Page

• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Want
  • Substance

• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Word
  • Survival

• Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Power
  • Political
  • Financial

• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Believe
  • History
  • Struggle

• I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Writing
  • Girl
  • You

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • World
  • Thoughts

• Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Man
  • Stock
  • Market

• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Winning

• I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Want
  • You
  • Kind

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• I have never seen such a defiance of death.

  

  Kurt Student
  • Death

• You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Power
  • True

• When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

  

  Plato
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Principle

• It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.

  

  Paula Deen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Amazing

• I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • May
  • Me
  • Deep