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.

Betty MacDonald

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• 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.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Someone
  • Biology

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Happy
  • 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.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Great
  • Why
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • American
  • Dream
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Relationship

• I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Miami

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Want
  • City

• If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Parents

• We shall confine this brief study of the Old Testament to the prophets, because they are the beating heart of the Old Testament.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Heart
  • Study

• '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.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Good
  • Children
  • Past

• Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• 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.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Heart
  • Prayer

• He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God

  

  Laura Nyro
  • God
  • Kindness

• I look for stories everywhere.

  

  David Grann

• As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Truth
  • Perspective
  • Beliefs

• The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Truth

• I am settled in France, and as for the rest of my history as a painter, it is bound up with the impressionistic group.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Up
  • History
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Truth
  • Life is
  • Monday