Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Mother Teresa

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• I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Desire
  • Reflection
  • Forgiveness

• I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Trouble
  • Big
  • Getting

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Mother
  • Words
  • Universe

• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Feel

• I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.

  

  Yuna
  • Heart
  • Care
  • Appreciate

• That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Judge
  • Matter
  • Security

• A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Children
  • Job

• What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Scary
  • Texas

• He's put a lock on the door of the House of Commons and he refuses to face the people of Canada through their elected representatives

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • House
  • Door

• Ed Balls

  

  Ed Balls

• When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.

  

  Martin Evans
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• I have my own personal wish list.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Wish
  • List

• What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

  

  John Biddle
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Drop

• Now you're my whole life;Now you're my whole world.I just can't believeThe way I feel about you girl.Like a river meets the sea,Stronger than it's ever been.We've come so far since that day,And I thought I loved you then.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Life
  • World
  • Girl

• Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • God
  • Silence
  • Speak