Amanda Lindhout Quotes

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

Amanda Lindhout

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• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
  • Team

• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • School
  • Home
  • Law

• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Self
  • Conquer
  • Brainy

• In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Anger

• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Unknown
  • Refreshed

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • House

• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • End
  • Crime
  • In The End

• I think it's good to conquer the fears.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Think
  • Conquer

• The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Freedom
  • Struggle
  • Product

• Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Political

• The way I look at it you can always get better.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • You
  • Better
  • Look

• Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Home
  • Job
  • Earth

• Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Great
  • Surround Yourself

• The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Hurt

• One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Problem
  • Drug
  • Public

• If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Up
  • Child
  • Grow

• The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Politics
  • President
  • Talking

• The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Book
  • Man

• Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Different
  • Know
  • Feel

• Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar, Dancing on the light from star to star. Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are, I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire. I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream, You could have been anyone to me. Before that moment you touched my lips That perfect feeling when time just slips Away between us on our foggy trip.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Dream
  • Perfect
  • Feelings

• The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • Dream
  • Imagination