William Moulton Marston Quotes

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

William Moulton Marston

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• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

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• I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

  

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• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  

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• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  

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• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

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• I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

  

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• In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

  

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• Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

  

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• The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

  

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• Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

  

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• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

  

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• I've always thought it would be interesting to give insight on soccer because I have a lot of experience in my career.

  

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• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

  

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• Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

  

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• I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

  

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• You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

  

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• If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

  

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• I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

  

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• I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.

  

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• I've made it clear for some time if somebody came up with the right offer, I'd consider selling the team. It wasn't a secret in Memphis or, really, around the country.

  

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• If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Ability
  • Defeat
  • Draws