Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
-
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
-
I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
-
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
-
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
-
This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
-
I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
-
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
-
Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
-
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
-
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
-
I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
-
I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
-
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
-
I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
-
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
-
If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.
-
For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?
-
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
-
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
-
Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.
-
When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
-
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
