Ally Carter Quotes

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

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• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Morning
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Humility
  • Come

• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Leadership
  • Throne
  • Bench

• 'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Green
  • Presidential
  • Election

• It is better to live rich than to die rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live
  • Die
  • Better

• Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

  

  Al Stewart

• I'm such a bikini girl. Generally, I like to be as half-naked as I possibly can.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Girl

• Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.

  

  Bernice King
  • Style

• Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.

  

  Alan Huffman

• There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • God
  • True

• Non-consensual, sexual advances are not the same as flirtatious comments from a creepy dude. The degree of harassment matters.

  

  Cheryl Yeoh
  • Creepy

• Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

  

  David Korten
  • Money

• The last thing I wanna do is sit home and watch television.

  

  Leo Fitzpatrick
  • Home

• To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

  

  David Small
  • Real
  • Forgiveness

• He has been a world champion - great for him - but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I'm here waiting for him because I'm the best British fighter to come out of these shores.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • World
  • Great
  • Waiting

• All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Humility
  • Master

• In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Moments
  • Winning
  • Waiting

• ...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Justice
  • Generation
  • Profanation

• You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Liberty
  • Idol
  • New York Harbor

• Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Waiting
  • Master
  • Skill