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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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
Laura Hillenbrand
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
You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
Kabir Bedi
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.
Kathleen Sebelius
You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
Clare Balding
What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
Advance it into notice, that its worth
Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
William Cowper
I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.
Mark Ruffalo
We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.
Saddam Hussein
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