Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

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• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Control

• It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Bad
  • End

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Doing

• I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Team
  • Never
  • Left

• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Marriage
  • Talent
  • Genius

• People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Alive
  • Prison

• Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Small
  • Place
  • Liberal

• Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Like
  • Period
  • Christmas

• I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Women
  • Single
  • Images

• I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Problem
  • Belief
  • Dignity

• Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • May
  • Think
  • Plan

• Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Comedy
  • Survive
  • Without

• It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Trying

• Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Fear
  • Hurt
  • Desert

• Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• We have art in order not to die of life.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Die Of Life

• There's no huge message and there doesn't have to be, but we're having as much fun, us and our audience, as any band out there, I think, and we're proud of it.

  

  Joe King The Fray
  • Fun
  • Proud
  • Audience

• The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Life
  • High
  • Excellence

• I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wise

• There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Up
  • Society
  • Growing

• Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

  

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