Molly Ivins Quotes

If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

Molly Ivins

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• At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Times

• It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Period
  • Exercise

• I don't mind dating younger men now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Dating

• We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Together
  • Cool
  • Enjoy

• All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Liberty
  • Share
  • Destruction

• Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• I have found an honest and excellent man Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard Manet who, I believe, sincerely loves me. I have entered into the positive life after having lived for a long time in by chimeras.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • She
  • Power
  • Earth

• If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Negativity

• And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Friends
  • Child
  • Daughter

• The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it!

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Said

• What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn't a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • People
  • House
  • Desert

• I try to do good things, you know, and good things happen when you keep yourself open like that, definitely.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Open
  • Good Things
  • Keep Yourself

• I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Memory
  • Comments
  • Stands

• Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Pain
  • Heaven

• Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Evil
  • Sin
  • Analysis

• Even though he was glad they’d have a second chance, that chance wouldn’t be with him, and because it wouldn’t, sorrow rode him. Logically, he understood the state wanting them placed with people of their own race but his heart didn’t believe that should be the only measuring stick. What about caring and commitment? Admittedly, he knew next to nothing about child-raising, but he and the twins could have learned along the way. Maybe sometime in the future similar situations would be measured differently, but today in 1870, he’d be losing his boys.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Heart
  • Boys
  • Race

• Hillary Clinton really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Want
  • President
  • Wanted

• If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Fighting
  • Destiny
  • Victory

• Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Circumstances
  • Performance
  • Behavior

• If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Reading
  • Importance
  • Helpful

• If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Injustice
  • Bother