Catherine Marshall (Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd) Quotes
God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
Catherine Marshall
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
Raghuram Rajan
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Karl Kraus
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
Yoko Ono
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I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.
Victor Ponta
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Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.
Gavin Newsom
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The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
Waris Dirie
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I'm a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and I'm always scurrying around in a panic.
Olesya Rulin
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame de Stael
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Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.
Ruggiero Ricci
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You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.
Sugar Ray Robinson
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
Jane Austen
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The middle path is the way to wisdom
Rumi
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy
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God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
Catherine Marshall
