Wendy McElroy Quotes

As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.

Wendy McElroy

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• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Opinion
  • Matters
  • Insane

• I always had a fascination with twins.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Always
  • Fascination
  • Twins

• I had been writing professionally since 1988.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • Been
  • Had

• The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.

  

  Nas
  • Great
  • Growing
  • Respect

• You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • You
  • Film
  • Say

• The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Great
  • Job
  • Me

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • God
  • Long
  • She

• What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• All that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Long
  • Trying

• I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Champion

• I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Insurance

• People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • People
  • Gay
  • Attitude

• When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • World
  • God
  • Question

• I don't have a set way of dressing or a uniform, though I kind of wish I did. But then again, I also love that I can be any sort of character I want - that's a little bit of the actress coming out of me.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Character
  • Wish

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.

  

  Wendy McElroy
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Words