Karen Wheaton Quotes
When you arrive in heaven, you will know that answering the call was worth it. Answering the call is always worth it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
-
Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
-
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
-
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
-
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
-
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
-
Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
-
I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?
-
I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between 'slim' and 'slender.'
-
Probably in time physiologists will be able to make nerves connecting the bodies of different people; this will have the advantage that we shall be able to feel another man's tooth aching.
-
People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.
-
We work very closely together on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine. And actually they did so - conquered part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.
-
Well, I'm not talkin' bout locking down forever, baby.That would be too demanding.I'm just talkin' bout two lonely peopleWho might reach a little understanding.I'm not talkin' bout knocking out heavenwith whether we're wrong or we're right.I'm not talkin' bout hooking up and hanging out,I'm just talkin' bout tonight.
-
Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.
-
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
-
'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
-
I'd like to dedicate this award to all the women before me that never had the chances that I've had, the survivors, the pioneers and the outcasts. My blood, my tradition. And I'd like to thank all the people in this industry who've respected my choices and have not been afraid of the power and dignity that that entitled me to.
-
In later years, it would become fashionable to say of the missionaries, 'They came to the islands to do good, and they did right well.' Others made jest of the missionary slogan, 'They came to a nation in darkness; they left it in light,' by pointing out: 'Of course they left Hawaii lighter. They stole every goddamned thing that wasn't nailed down.'
-
I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
-
I think I had a fur coat that someone bought me from Portobello Market back in the 1960s, but I think as soon as you think about it, what it is you're wearing, make that connection, then you realise it's just not right. I don't lecture people about it, but it's not something I'd ever wear.
-
What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
-
Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.
-
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
-
When you arrive in heaven, you will know that answering the call was worth it. Answering the call is always worth it.
