Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

Cecelia Ahern

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• When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Gold

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Party

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Truth
  • History
  • Satisfaction

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hurt

• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Men
  • Man
  • Victory

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Credit
  • Month
  • Credit Card

• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • High
  • Myself
  • Crazy

• You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Love Is

• I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Happy
  • Poetry

• My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

  

  Irving Stone
  • World
  • Dream
  • Vision

• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Faith

• My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Light
  • Eye
  • Color

• The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.

  

  Brendan Fletcher
  • Country
  • Why

• I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.

  

  Van Jones
  • Thinking
  • Energy
  • Understanding

• I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Football

• When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.

  

  Bart Millard MercyMe
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Inspiration