Emily Matchar Quotes
If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
Emily Matchar
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Oswald Chambers
When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
Ted Cruz
The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.
Jacob deGrom
Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
Yu Chui Yee
I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
E. L. Konigsburg
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken
You realize mortality is everywhere.
Katey Sagal
I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
Ian Anderson
Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
Dan Jenkins
The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
Harold Ramis
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
...what started with those simple requirements – make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt – turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.
Courtney Milan
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
Wendell Berry
You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection...you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is.
Ian Brown
There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.
Orison Swett Marden
Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp.
Ethan Gilsdorf
If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
Emily Matchar
