Lionel Shriver Quotes

We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

Lionel Shriver

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• If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Fact
  • Become
  • Correct

• My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • God
  • Know
  • Wealth

• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Power
  • Free
  • Blind

• I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Think
  • Period
  • Needs

• There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • U.S.
  • Limitation

• I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Dog
  • England
  • Go

• When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Week
  • Fame

• It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Faith
  • Knowing
  • Commit

• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Doing
  • Understand
  • Only

• Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intraFortunam debet quisque manere suam.

  

  Ovid

• The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Lost
  • Hurt

• Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People

• Cara was six years younger. She slept in my bed for years.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Year
  • Bed

• When The Temptations began, we wanted to be visual. So we did our own choreography and developed our own uniforms.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations

• As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Writing
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Math

• Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kids

• Oh, 'Sports Night' was tough because 'Sports Night' was... Well, you know, it's like Mamet. It's Sorkin. And I didn't realize that you had to immediately be off of the other actors' last line in their dialogue.

  

  Alanna Ubach
  • Night
  • Sports

• Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Cold

• I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

  

  James Wolfe
  • Important
  • Success
  • Brave

• We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

  

  Lionel Shriver