Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.

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• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Science
  • Years
  • Fiction

• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Right

• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Courtesy
  • Defence

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Promise

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • You
  • Never
  • Bend

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Men
  • Me
  • Shoes

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Things
  • Winning
  • Habit

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Music
  • Dance

• 'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Age
  • Black

• Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • World
  • Important
  • Soul

• When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Game
  • Golf

• If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • American

• Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • History
  • Past

• In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • Up
  • Challenge

• Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Work
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  • Love