Charles A. Murray (Charles Alan Murray) Quotes
People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.Charles A. Murray
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry -
The muses visit when I'm lonely.
Taylor Hicks -
Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
T. B. Joshua -
They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
Florenz Ziegfeld -
The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
Kara Swisher
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
Nathan Fillion -
I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
Ed Harris -
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
Saadi -
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West -
Man must not be turned into a chicken or a rat as in the well-known experiments in which elation is induced electrically through electrodes inserted into the brain. Related to this is the question of the ever-increasing use of tranquilizers and anti-depressants, legal and illegal narcotics, and so forth.
Andrei Sakharov -
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
Marian Seldes
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I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
Alexis Bledel -
Mothers need mothers. Let's be there for one another.
Christy Turlington -
There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
Mary Beth Patterson -
Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.
Dennis Christopher -
In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
Peter Blair Henry -
It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.
James Worthy
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I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for.
Barbara Mandrell -
I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?
Andrea Thompson -
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
John Wooden -
You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.
Ken Kesey -
People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
Charles A. Murray