Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.Mother Teresa
Quotes to Explore
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
Orison Swett Marden -
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Laura Harring -
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
Zadie Smith -
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel -
In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
Pankaj Mishra -
The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
Patricia Birch
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
Dan Lipinski -
If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
Rafael dos Anjos -
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
Cameron Diaz -
I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
Adam Arkin -
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan -
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
Zooey Deschanel -
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
Ian Mckellen -
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
Yehuda Amichai -
If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
Manoj Bhargava -
Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.
Vayalar Ravi -
My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.
L. E. Modesitt
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He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.
Raymond Carver -
Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
Sam Harris -
I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.
Stephen Dorff -
Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.
Alan Mulally -
I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.
Mother Teresa