Carolyn Mahaney Quotes

When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don’t feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.

Carolyn Mahaney

• God
• Give
• Bodies
• Obey
• Husbands

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• I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Up
  • You
  • Food

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Party

• One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Kiss
  • London

• I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Difficult
  • Horror
  • Terrified

• When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Brain

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Victory
  • Lose
  • Underdog

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • World
  • Character
  • Emotions

• I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Think

• In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Enemy

• Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Help
  • Pain

• Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Men
  • House
  • Silence

• All right," he said. "Since you ask so nicely." "I wasn't asking." "I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Clear
  • Sharp

• I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • Believe
  • History

• When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don’t feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • God
  • Give
  • Bodies