Molly Ivins Quotes

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

Molly Ivins

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• I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Story

• I don't particularly get nervous about anything.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Anything
  • Get
  • Nervous

• New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Moving

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Up
  • God
  • Real

• I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Remember
  • Fall
  • Powerful

• Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Christ
  • Give

• The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Night
  • Energy

• Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Distance

• We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Brain

• Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Done
  • Explore

• The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  

  B. W. Powe

• Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Family
  • Law
  • Government

• Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Right
  • Say
  • Can

• Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Experience
  • Community
  • Reason

• With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Experience
  • Alone
  • Painting

• I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Theatre
  • Stage
  • Fountain

• Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Children
  • School
  • Opportunity

• The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Light

• One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Function
  • Ancient
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