Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

Mother Teresa

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• 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

• Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • People
  • Money
  • Coverage

• What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Christmas
  • Christ
  • Necessary

• I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • School
  • Dad
  • Singing

• I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Good
  • Different
  • Feels

• Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Life
  • Design
  • Planning

• You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Game
  • Enjoy
  • Position

• An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Editing

• To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Why is it”—she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower—“that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?” A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. “Because I'm a smart man.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • Men
  • Why

• There’s an old saying: that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I don’t believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things — your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that keep you whole. Those are the things to hold on to when you’re broken.

  

  Alessandro Aleotti
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Question

• The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Rock
  • Baby
  • Rocks

• But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

  

  Artie Lange
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Adversity

• I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.

  

  Benny Hill
  • Girls

• I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Culture
  • Feels
  • Comfortable

• The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Christ
  • Difference
  • Sacrifices

• In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Long
  • Way

• We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Feels
  • Christ
  • Able