Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes

What made me empathic was my depressions.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

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• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • School
  • High
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• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
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  • Fight

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Love
  • Me
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• I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Nice
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• I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Book
  • Care
  • Wanted

• Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Short
  • Pasta

• To innovate is not to reform.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Reform
  • Innovate

• I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Hurt

• This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Business
  • Free
  • Free Will

• Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Important
  • Government
  • Constitution

• My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • World
  • Mother
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• For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Different
  • May
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• Iam seges est ubi Troia fuit.

  

  Ovid

• Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

  

  Walt Disney
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  • Wisdom
  • Leadership

• I don't miss it at all. I'm glad I'm out.

  

  Larry Bird

• No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

  

  E. B. White
  • Live

• Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.

  

  Pablo Amaringo
  • People
  • Soul
  • Water

• I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • School
  • Mom

• When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.

  

  Kate Langley Bosher
  • Together
  • Enough
  • Knows

• I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Home
  • Beach
  • Malibu

• Now I know we have the power to incite change through the Internet - keep sharing our stories, our dreams, and our struggles.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Power

• What made me empathic was my depressions.

  

  Alice Weaver Flaherty