Betty MacDonald Quotes
I never feel that the things I tell Mrs. Monday are lies. I think that lies are only when you want not to tell the truth. With Mrs. Monday I want to tell the truth but life is easier if I don't.
Quotes to Explore
-
We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
-
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
-
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
-
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
-
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
-
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
-
Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
-
Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
-
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
-
When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
-
I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
-
Selecting Budapest would not only be a new city and country for the Olympic Games, but put the region on the map. We want to organise the first Central Eastern Europe Olympics.
-
We shall confine this brief study of the Old Testament to the prophets, because they are the beating heart of the Old Testament.
-
'I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.'
-
Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.
-
When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.
-
He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
-
The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.
-
For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.
-
There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter.
-
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
-
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
-
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning.
-
I never feel that the things I tell Mrs. Monday are lies. I think that lies are only when you want not to tell the truth. With Mrs. Monday I want to tell the truth but life is easier if I don't.
