Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

Trenton Lee Stewart

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• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Favorite
  • Were
  • Anne

• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Poor
  • Investment
  • Data

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
  • Power
  • Creativity

• I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Good
  • Country

• All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Red
  • Early
  • Roses

• You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Body
  • Look
  • Year

• I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Strong women, that's who I really respect.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Respect

• I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Think
  • Past

• They sang of love, and not of fame;Forgot was Britain's glory;Each heart recalled a different name,But all sang Annie Lawrie.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Different
  • Heart

• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Great
  • History
  • Past

• The people who control culture in China have no culture.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Culture
  • Control

• To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • People
  • Experience
  • Hurt

• I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'

  

  Pilou Asbaek

• It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • True
  • Purpose

• I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Think
  • Knowledge
  • Software

• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

  

  John Updike
  • Nature
  • Sex

• I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came.

  

  Sully Erna Godsmack
  • Snake
  • Came
  • Far Away

• No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Purpose
  • Prove
  • Aim