Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

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• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Preparation

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Try

• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Rise

• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Death

• Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Step

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Fearless

• A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Stupid
  • River
  • Desert

• Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Present

• My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Life
  • Happy

• Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Winning

• Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you don't choose the right thing to wear underneath!

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Important

• When I go into 'You're the Worst,' I'm very glammed up, and my hair and makeup is va-va-voom. Now what I'm having fun with in 'Grease' is, honestly, I go to rehearsals with zero makeup. When I get pimples, I get excited about it, like 'Yay! It helps the character!' The frumpier and uglier and grosser, the better with Jan.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • Up
  • Character
  • Fun

• I was bulimic for a really long time and I self-harmed as well. I eventually went to a GP and I had an irregular heartbeat that they thought might have come from the bulimia. I had to go to hospital to take a lot of tests, to check my heart was working properly. It was such a low point for me and I was so scared that I was like, ‘I want to get better. I want to change now.’ Then I began to see a therapist and started taking medication, and I think a combination of those things, with lots of other elements, started helping me get better.

  

  Olly Alexander Years & Years
  • Long Time
  • Bulimic
  • Self-harmed

• As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • World
  • Happy
  • Man

• It's really hard for me to meet someone. I don't want to date actors. Been there, done that. Only one actor per household, please.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Done

• The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Men
  • Power
  • Question

• The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one’s country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Country
  • Broken
  • Retirement

• One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Joy
  • Preaching