Cecelia Ahern Quotes

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

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• I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Bad
  • Shy
  • Speaker

• There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • God

• A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Time
  • Person
  • Professional

• On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Couple
  • Walk
  • Ice

• Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • College
  • Texas
  • Students

• Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • World
  • Power
  • Faith

• My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

  

  S. R. Nathan
  • Country
  • Perception
  • Two

• In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Chains

• I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Process
  • I Wish
  • Civil War

• We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Fate
  • Philosophical

• You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Day
  • Stamps

• Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.

  

  Xiang Yu
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn: Object of my implacable disgust.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

  

  Confucius
  • Things
  • Marvels
  • Common Man

• Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Space
  • Favorite
  • Asks

• The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?

  

  Warren St. John
  • Opportunity
  • Passion
  • Economic

• To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Asks
  • Generous
  • Favors