Kay Boyle Quotes

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

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• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • God
  • Fight
  • Strength

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Together
  • Want

• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Leadership
  • Storm
  • Ship

• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Name
  • Tough

• Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Mirror

• You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Money
  • You
  • Something

• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Best
  • Motivational
  • Plant

• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Tall

• Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Chicago

• In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Story
  • New
  • Early

• An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

  

  Indira Varma
  • She
  • Actor
  • Emotions

• When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  

  Dan Savage

• 'That you are regularly facing challenges does not make you an unbeliever. Don’t measure your Christian life by your situation.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Christian

• And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Believe
  • Wish
  • Wishes

• Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mind
  • Fruit
  • Manners

• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • May
  • History
  • Today

• The only frustrating thing is to have a record of 1-4 and thinking I can help contribute, ... Being injured, sitting on the sidelines you get a chance to see everything for what it is, get a little bit hungrier than you were before.

  

  Nate Burleson
  • Help
  • Frustrating
  • Injured

• whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

  

  Kay Boyle
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  • Religion
  • Made