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

• It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• 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

• I love listening to classical music.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Music
  • Listening

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

  

  Edwin Way Teale
  • Mind
  • Nature

• These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Look
  • Birds

• The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Jesus
  • Birth
  • Untrue

• Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart

  

  Kabir
  • Heart

• I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.

  

  William Styron
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Writing

• People like me start organizing conferences and editing journals, even become tenured professors talking about Empire of the Senseless with a bunch of wide-eyed kids from the farmland. If only one of those kids goes back home and lets her hogs out of the pen to go plum wild rolling around in their own slop while the neighboring farmers scratch their chins, then, isn't that worth it? Insert the same scenario with stockbrokers, stock-car drivers, and stock characters in the post-baccalaureate working man's sideshow, and well, that's viral reproduction.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
  • People
  • Home
  • Character

• 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