Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

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• Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

  

  Oscar Fernandes
  • Country
  • Light
  • Religion

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Career
  • Man
  • Amazing

• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Important
  • Women
  • American

• If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Thinking
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• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Problem

• I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Kids
  • Hair
  • Child

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Black

• 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

• Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Always
  • Minds
  • Comedians

• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Present

• When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Boat
  • Surfing
  • Sailing

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Mean
  • Poverty
  • Being

• History is the revelation of providence.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • History

• I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • God
  • Believe
  • Doubt

• So many people complain that there aren't enough Latinos on television, and yet when they are, they need support.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Support
  • Television
  • Complain

• As long as I could remember, I had looked forward to a handful of wonderful events - a total eclipse of the sun, the return of Halley's Comet, and the first trip to the Moon. I've still never seen that eclipse, and Halley's comet was a disappointment, but my sense of wonder was diamond-bright on that July 20, 1969.

  

  Phyllis Eisenstein
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Wonder

• Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Men

• Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Good
  • Girl

• Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Believe
  • Jesus
  • Poor