Lois Lowry Quotes

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

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• See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Together
  • Humanity
  • Fight

• Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Community
  • Process
  • News

• Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Die
  • Heaven

• There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Country
  • Alone

• Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nobody

• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • You
  • Film
  • Chance

• Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
  • Political
  • Service

• We don't go against the will of the people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Will
  • Against

• If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • True
  • Me

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• I'm a little bit of a control freak.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Control
  • Little
  • Freak

• When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Want
  • You
  • Numbers

• I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Age
  • Always
  • Something

• Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Work
  • Words

• It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • End
  • Yourself

• While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Career
  • Decision
  • Direction

• All I'm about is winning.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Winning

• It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

  

  Alain Prost
  • People
  • Team

• The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.

  

  Lynne Reid Banks
  • Time
  • World
  • Remember

• It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Law
  • Spirit

• I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Team
  • Valentines