Kathleen Tessaro Quotes

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.

Kathleen Tessaro

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• I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Open
  • Engagement
  • Dialogue

• In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Why
  • Day
  • Eyes

• I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Love

• I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Done
  • Hand
  • Growth

• Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Think
  • Opinion

• Music is like my security blanket.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Security
  • Blanket

• Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Benefits
  • Tell

• When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Woman
  • Right
  • Gun

• I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Choices
  • Cold
  • Decisions

• Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Time
  • Education
  • Identity

• My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Parents

• I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Up
  • Done
  • You

• I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Believe
  • Kind
  • Beauty

• Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!

  

  William James
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Training

• As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Work
  • Job
  • Bad

• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Worry
  • Married
  • Terrorism

• It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Daughter
  • Difficult
  • Ugly

• In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Style
  • Mistake
  • Difficult

• There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.

  

  Kathleen Tessaro
  • Difficult
  • Simplicity
  • Refined