Lauren Oliver Quotes

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • World
  • India

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Hair

• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • See
  • Wait
  • Monarchy

• A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • God
  • Men
  • Service

• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Truth
  • True
  • Truth Is

• Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Growing
  • Car
  • Size

• Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Music
  • Words
  • Language

• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Smart
  • Surprise
  • Known

• It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • God
  • Service

• The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
  • Never

• I teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now - where evictions are going up and down, what cities are actually instituting policies that work, what housing insecurity is doing to our cities, neighbourhoods, our kids.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Work
  • Kids

• My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

  

  Lauren Oliver
  • Pretty
  • Parents