Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

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

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Running
  • Insanity

• My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Want
  • Car
  • Buildings

• By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Singing

• I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Go

• Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • She
  • Fun

• I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • New
  • New York
  • Theater

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

  

  Baron d'Holbach

• I would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life

• Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?SECRETARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?MODERATOR 1: Yes.SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question? Laughter, applauseMODERATOR 1: Probably not. Probably not. Applause

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Question
  • Laughter

• Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

  

  Elton John
  • World

• 'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Real
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• I am a shepherd.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Shepherd

• I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Choice

• For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Mind
  • Spiritual
  • Lord

• First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.

  

  Anthony Hemingway
  • Black

• You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Long
  • Way
  • Smile

• Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Spiritual
  • Generosity