Cecelia Ahern Quotes

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

Cecelia Ahern

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• I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • God
  • Europe

• Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Children
  • Love
  • Parents

• Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Giving
  • Understanding

• You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Beautiful
  • Style
  • Forever

• Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
  • Performance
  • Affect

• What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Built
  • Blossom

• A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood

• I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.

  

  Anthony Caro
  • Important
  • Long
  • Morning

• Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.

  

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

• Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Song

• For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Time
  • May
  • Kid

• As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Destiny

• Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • School
  • Done

• Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Help
  • Interesting

• I have to say I have the most experience. I'm a veteran when it comes to that, [my brothers] they're still learning. They have lots of potential. They're like first-round picks right now in the game, they still have to develop.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Learning

• Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Feels
  • Lonely

• If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

  

  Kate Tempest
  • Water
  • Feels
  • Alive

• The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Feels
  • Firsts
  • Bothered