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.

Karen Wheaton

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• 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.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Body

• 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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Teach

• 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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Fact
  • Intellect
  • Turn

• 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?

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Free
  • Violence

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• 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.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Words

• Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Men
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • 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.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Work
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Understanding
  • Forever

• Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Food

• I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Age

• We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself. To work out a way to that world brain organization is therefore our primary need in this age of imperative construction.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Work
  • Age

• It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • True
  • Mystery

• Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

  

  Gene Logsdon
  • Mind
  • Common
  • Destruction

• To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time for every purpose under heaven.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Heaven

• When you arrive in heaven, you will know that answering the call was worth it. Answering the call is always worth it.

  

  Karen Wheaton
  • Heaven
  • Knows
  • Answering