Alice McDermott Quotes

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

Alice McDermott

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• The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Relationship
  • Best
  • Healthy

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Love

• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Evil

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.

  

  Maluma
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Watch

• We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Day
  • Him

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • God
  • True

• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Strong
  • You
  • Sometimes

• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Better

• I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Women
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Doing
  • Jump
  • Comfort

• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Men
  • Years
  • Born

• Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• It is a great night. It is the end of Socialism.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Great
  • Night

• I feel honored that the Hispanic community in the United States have embraced me. I'm really happy and honored to receive their support.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Happy
  • Community
  • Support

• I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn't remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. 'The recent one!' And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Film

• Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

  

  John P. Kotter
  • Great
  • Success
  • Feeling

• Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Faith
  • Blood
  • Hearts

• Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Feeling
  • Faith
  • Church