Carrie Nation (Carrie Amelia Nation) Quotes

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

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• China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Help
  • Best

• Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Impact

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
  • Mechanic

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Work
  • Love
  • Human

• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Guy
  • Free

• I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Hand
  • Morning
  • Bread

• I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Ignore
  • Times
  • Reflecting

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Spiritual

• Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Important
  • Love
  • Why

• Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Quiet
  • Gone
  • Pirates

• I'm not interested in leaving it open-ended. That would just cause me frustration. I wouldn't be satisfied. What's really cool about Fringe, and one of the things we did do right, was that the way we chose to tell the story was that, with every season, there was a closure and then a new chapter. That allowed us to actually make the closure.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Leaving
  • Interested
  • Open-ended

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Stop
  • inspirational

• To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory.

  

  Alice von Hildebrand
  • Victory
  • Strength
  • Weakness

• Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination

  

  William Bridges
  • Positive
  • Journey
  • inspirational

• I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

  

  Carrie Nation
  • inspirational
  • Strength
  • Invincible