Kathleen Norris Quotes

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Kathleen Norris

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• There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Want
  • Space
  • Mountain

• Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Would

• Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Place
  • Stars
  • Hollywood

• Every season I am inspired by women.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Season

• Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today

• I love a good paella, so I'd love to be able to know how to cook one.

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • Good

• The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Like other ideologues, libertarians react to the world's failing to conform to their model by asking where the world went wrong.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • World
  • School
  • High

• We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Important
  • Hope

• I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Pretty
  • Action
  • Play

• It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Character
  • Happy

• I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Speech

• Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical.

  

  William E. Geist
  • Past
  • Without
  • Wings

• Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Player
  • Guitar

• It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Bird

• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Talent
  • Taught

• Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley
  • Effort
  • Determination
  • Persistence

• I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Happy
  • Should
  • Might

• But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

  

  Kathleen Norris
  • Persistence
  • Thinkers
  • Astonishing