Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes

Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.

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• It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Virtue
  • Function
  • Within

• I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Bad
  • Angry
  • Frustrated

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Cancer
  • Jealousy
  • Mental

• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Education
  • Support
  • Language

• The movie business is a big gamble.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Big

• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Art
  • Religion
  • Spring

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Help
  • Small
  • City

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • America
  • Today
  • Tradition

• You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Father
  • Know

• I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Know
  • Years
  • Transition

• I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Age
  • Wanted
  • Nine

• Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Tell

• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Different
  • Money
  • Want

• A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Stock
  • Performance
  • Exploring

• Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.

  

  Alvaro de Vasconcelos
  • Political
  • Islam
  • Homogeneous

• A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Death
  • Human Race

• "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Childhood
  • Pride
  • Birth

• Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Media
  • Opportunities

• Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Right
  • Nancy
  • Hunches