Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

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• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Why
  • Want
  • Cancer

• No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Corruption
  • Incidents

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Great
  • Family
  • She

• I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Like

• People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Glasses
  • Diamonds
  • Pearls

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Time
  • Power
  • War

• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Television

• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop

• The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Dream

• Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.

  

  Angelus Silesius

• My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • City
  • Kitchen

• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  

  Edwin Way Teale
  • Mind
  • Nature

• It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

  

  Elizabeth Bibesco
  • Door

• There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • People
  • Real
  • Dumb

• I really like the idea of consumption tax, and most countries have a pretty serious consumption tax. It's called a value-added tax or a goods and services tax ... It's a sales tax. It doesn't tax labor, it doesn't tax savings or investment - it taxes consumption.

  

  T.R. Reid
  • Pretty
  • Value
  • Serious

• Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Person
  • Part

• God created me. And the closest I will ever get with God is this soul, this body. And if I don't have myself, if I don't listen to myself, if I don't trust myself, then I don't trust God, because God created me.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • God
  • Soul
  • Trust

• It is a natural stronghold for them—they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and they’ll be just as hard to anticipate and to kill in such close quarters.” “Wow,” Shane said. “You really know how to drum up team spirit. Did you print up Team Total Fail jerseys, too?” Myrnin gave him an entirely crazy smile. “Would you be surprised if I had?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Team
  • Water

• One person really can make a difference.

  

  Leonard Lauder

• Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Jesus
  • Poor
  • Praying