Taylor Caldwell Quotes

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Taylor Caldwell

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Determination

• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • First
  • Nervous

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Difficult

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • You
  • Mean
  • Dance

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • West
  • Iran

• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Literature

• I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Know
  • Moon

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Perfection
  • Got
  • Bitcoin

• Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Dance

• The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • People
  • Changed
  • Old

• I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• Rejoice, oh! grieving heart,The hours fly past;With each some sorrow dies,With each some shadow flies,Until at lastThe red dawn in the eastBids weary night depart,And pain is past.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Past

• There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Good
  • Help

• The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Great
  • Family
  • Together

• With marathon swimming, I think you have to use your head more than you do in pool events, which are more automatic. You can just go out and replicate your training pace in competition. With the marathon, though, you have to contend with nature, physical contact, and time.

  

  Poliana Okimoto
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Training

• There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.

  

  Andrew Stanton
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Mysterious

• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Nature
  • Rebel
  • Human Nature