Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

Brenda Shaughnessy

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• Ideas
• Terror
• Acknowledging

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Answer
  • Take
  • Fighter

• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Political
  • Speech

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Feel

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • World
  • Women
  • Why

• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Happened
  • Graduation

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Evil

• I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective. Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Stop

• 'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.

  

  Charli XCX
  • True

• If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Live
  • Reality

• It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

  

  Jason Dohring
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Free
  • Service
  • Tree

• To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• A dream, a dream, - it is all a dream, A strange, sad dream, good sooth; For old as I am, and old as I seem, My heart is full of youth.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Dream

• Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

  

  Brenda Shaughnessy
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Terror