Nuala O'Faolain Quotes

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dance

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.

  

  Usher
  • Children
  • Beauty
  • Relax

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Country
  • Help
  • Decision

• All diseases run into one, old age.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Run
  • Old Age

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Enthusiasm
  • Skill

• I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Kids
  • Stress
  • Anxiety

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Working
  • Improv
  • Excite

• I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • War
  • Happen
  • Things Happen

• I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Want

• We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Work
  • Women
  • Fighting

• Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we're not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn't being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Food
  • Eye
  • Cooking

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • Consequences

• There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World
  • Writing
  • Fact

• I had something to prove and went in the studio and started writing. I got into fitness and style and learned the whole craft. That was when I wrote everything on the album. I put out 'Don't Ya,' and it took off.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Fitness

• I'm a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man's world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.

  

  Jim Webb
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.

  

  Lope de Vega

• True praying has the largest results for good. Poor praying the least. We cannot do too much of real praying. We cannot do too little of the sham. If we would learn the wondrous power of prayer, we must not give a fragment here and there - A little talk with Jesus, as the tiny saintlets sing - but we must demand and hold with an iron grasp the best hours of the day for God and prayer, or there will be no praying worth the name.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

  

  Nuala O'Faolain
  • World
  • Believe
  • Men