Molly Ivins Quotes

In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.

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• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  

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• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  

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• I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

  

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• If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

  

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• People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.

  

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• I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

  

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• As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.

  

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• The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

  

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• Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

  

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• People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.

  

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• Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

  

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• The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

  

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• In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Spirit
  • Helping
  • Firsts