Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.

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• The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Heaven

• When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Different
  • Challenges
  • Generation

• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Way
  • Exist
  • Prejudice

• I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Giving
  • Nice
  • Present

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • War
  • Die

• A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Something
  • Feminist
  • Jewish

• Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Art
  • Fast
  • Bowling

• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Kids
  • Man
  • Film

• When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • World
  • Me
  • Grateful

• I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I also got to know Roger Corman a bit while we were on location in Mendocino. And then, subsequently, a woman who also worked on The Dunwich Horror named Tamara Asseyev and I teamed up and co-produced a picture that I wrote and directed, called Sweet Kill, that Roger Corman's then-new company distributed.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Knows

• Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Animal
  • Silence