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

• After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• 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

• This is where dreams-dreams, do you understand-come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Real

• 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

• I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Men
  • True

• 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

• Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

  

  Jamie Wyeth

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

  

  Delta Goodrem
  • Long
  • Singing

• Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

  

  Anurag Kashyap

• 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

• 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

• Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

  

  Nathanael Emmons
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Obstacle

• This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Proud
  • Victory
  • Big

• Im not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

  

  Sania Mirza
  • Thinking
  • Perfect
  • Praying

• 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