Bernice L. McFadden Quotes

When things were bad, time had a habit of taking its time to pass, making sure you experienced every painful moment. When things were good and contentment abundant, time moved like the wind, hurrying precious moments along and forcing things that normally require nurturing to grow and forge quickly.

Bernice L. McFadden

• Wind
• Habit
• Experienced
• Nurturing
• Forcing

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• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
  • Myself
  • Powerful

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Man
  • Revelation

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Pretty
  • Poetry
  • Inspired

• When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • School
  • High
  • City

• Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Writing

• The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Society

• Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Question
  • Party
  • Italian

• We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee We don’t take our trips on LSD We don’t burn our draft cards down on Main Street We like living right and being free.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Free
  • Marijuana

• Yeah I'm in love with the girl in the four-wheel driveChrome steel bumpers and red step sideShe has a large time in her large machineMan I wonder how she gets up in that thingIt casts a big shadow sittin' in the sunShe's got it revved up rockin' ready to runAnd someday soon I'm gonna climb right upAnd take a little ride in her big ol' truck.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Long
  • History
  • Hope

• People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Art

• Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Moral
  • Story
  • Glory

• I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • Family
  • English
  • Something

• We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Fall
  • Poetry
  • Machines

• Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Habit

• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  

  Jimmy Dean
  • Wind

• When things were bad, time had a habit of taking its time to pass, making sure you experienced every painful moment. When things were good and contentment abundant, time moved like the wind, hurrying precious moments along and forcing things that normally require nurturing to grow and forge quickly.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Wind
  • Habit
  • Experienced