Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
Quotes to Explore
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
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I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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Here's what I've learned about Hillary Clinton: She will be criticized when she speaks; she will be criticized when she doesn't speak. And so I think she should speak her mind.
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I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
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There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
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If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.
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Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.
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Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
