Molly Ivins Quotes

Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.

Molly Ivins

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• I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Me
  • Grew

• I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Exciting

• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • War
  • Fall
  • End

• Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Future
  • Success

• If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

  

  Xenophon
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Overcome

• I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Artist

• Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Three
  • Ready
  • Settle

• A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Learn

• You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Me
  • Soccer

• I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Book
  • Career
  • Health

• I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Change

• Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Moon

• To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq’s future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Future
  • Road

• If power means having control over one's own life, then perhaps there is no better ranking of the impact of sex roles and racism on power over our own lives than life expectancy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Power
  • Control

• As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true, when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

  

  Mohammed VI of Morocco
  • Question
  • Violence
  • Ignorance

• The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in your reality occurs, aligning you with the creative energy of the Universe. Such change is possible when you invite Spirit to open up the eyes of your awareness to the abundance that is already yours.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Reality
  • Energy
  • Spiritual

• All across my home state, throughout the South, and around the country, LGBT people and their families are seeking basic respect and dignity. This victory is an essential step on the journey toward full equality for all.

  

  Chad Griffin
  • Country
  • Home
  • Journey

• Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Human being
  • Sinful

• Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Spiritual
  • Journey