Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

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• I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Connection

• You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hope

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Truth
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Perfect
  • Play
  • Person

• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Science
  • Human
  • Situation

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

  

  Connie Britton
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Life
  • Live
  • Integrity

• Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

  

  Charles M. Schulz
  • Night

• I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

  

  Jason Flemyng
  • Model

• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hope