Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
-
One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
-
I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
-
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
-
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
-
It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
-
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
-
We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
-
I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
-
My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
-
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
-
My brother is really, really slow.
-
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
-
Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
-
On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
-
If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
-
I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
-
The movies were custard compared to politics.
-
I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
-
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
-
I work very hard, you know, but I don't think that I'm working, because what I do pleases me so much. I write about certain things because certain things happen to me.
-
I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.
-
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
-
Work without love is slavery.
