Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

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• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Lost
  • Suffering

• Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Night
  • Fashion
  • Challenge

• We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Character
  • Book
  • Best

• Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Question
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Care
  • Minorities

• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
  • Mystery

• But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Time
  • Music
  • Energy

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Man

• I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Alien

• I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Pink
  • Shades

• Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.

  

  Karl Marx

• We'd be Cuba if there were no Fox News.

  

  Ben Carson

• A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Believe
  • Important

• 'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.

  

  Jesse Andrews
  • Reality
  • Crazy
  • Band

• We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango that I sold after five years, and it only had like 12,000 miles on it. My whole life was within eight square blocks of my house. There was a golf course across the street. In my downtime, I was on the driving range.

  

  Joel Murray
  • Life
  • House
  • Golf

• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • People
  • Thoughts

• People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • True

• I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • God
  • Trust