Tamora Pierce Quotes

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

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• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dance

• When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Community
  • Single

• Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Everyday

• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • People
  • Winning
  • Thought

• You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • You
  • Know
  • Something

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Good
  • Good Things

• Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Always

• Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Practice

• I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Buddhist
  • Monk

• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Uncertainty

• If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Party
  • Government
  • Feel

• In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Hand
  • Body
  • Weakness

• You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.

  

  Halsey
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Cold

• Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Adversaries
  • Declaration of Independence

• Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• You have trusted Him as your dying Savior; now trust Him as your living Savior. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment did He also come to deliver you from present bondage. Just as truly as He came to bear your stripes for you has He come to live your life for you.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Punishment
  • Savior
  • Deliver

• I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

  

  John Travolta
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • Looks

• I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Just
  • Middle
  • Grades