Emily St. John Mandel Quotes

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.

Emily St. John Mandel

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• Enemies
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• I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Team
  • Same
  • Inequality

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Know
  • Ignorance

• You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Grow

• I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Support
  • Woman
  • Smart

• I know if it was the Time 99, I would've been off the list.

  

  John Mayer
  • Time

• Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.

  

  Ashton Shepherd
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

  

  Jerry Costello
  • People
  • Work
  • History

• Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Challenge
  • Failure

• I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

  

  Alton Brown
  • People
  • Dirty

• We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world. But there are specific areas that we get excited about - areas like hard tech, deep tech, companies that deal with really difficult technology, etc.

  

  David Cohen
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Good
  • Risk
  • Innovation

• Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Technology

• I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.

  

  Bob McNair
  • Real

• One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Nature

• Since Sputnik there is no Nature. Nature is an item contained in a man-made environment of satellites and information.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Nature
  • Environment

• When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.

  

  George Cukor
  • People
  • Star
  • Intelligent

• A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Long
  • Power

• Israel, for me, represents so much more than a nation. It's a very idealized example for the world. It's not just a nation that needs to be strong, secure, and safe. For me, for the sake of humanity, Israel needs to be a light that is an example to all nations.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • World
  • Strong
  • Light

• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Greatness

• A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Think

• If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Enemies