Lois McMaster Quotes

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Lois McMaster

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• There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Together
  • Parents

• What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Human
  • Potential

• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Care
  • Down

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Often

• I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Mistake

• Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Young
  • Bedrock

• Acting is very immediate.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Acting
  • Very
  • Immediate

• Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • School
  • Clever

• I never for a moment considered not doing the show. When I did the show I became very emotional. Some of the lyrics suddenly took on an entirely different meaning. Words like, 'as if we never said goodbye' became more real.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • Different
  • Real
  • Words

• Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Society
  • Progress

• I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

  

  Delta Goodrem
  • Long
  • Singing

• I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.

  

  John Matuszak
  • People
  • Shoes

• When I stand up from my writing desk, 'John Banville', or 'Benjamin Black' – that is, the one whose name will appear on the title page – vanishes on the instant, since he only existed while the writing was being done.

  

  John Banville
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• If you just want to help people out you end up being a good person. I mean there’s every single kind of horrible self-help book will tell you if you’re feeling down and you’re feeling depressed just go help someone out and it’s a cliché, you wouldn’t even say it it’s so embarrassing, except it happens to be true.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.... I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Believe

• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

• Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Children
  • May

• The significant thing about the Darbys and coke-iron is not that the first Abraham Darby “invented” a new process but that five generations of the Darby connection were able to perfect it and develop most of its applications.

  

  Anthony F. C. Wallace
  • Develop
  • Applications
  • Darby

• The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Victory
  • Occupation

• I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emotional connections to them, or they make us laugh or reflect some part of ourselves that we want to live in.

  

  Alex Kurtzman
  • People
  • Live
  • Emotional

• I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Motive