Lois McMaster Quotes

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

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• No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Great
  • Tragedy

• The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Job
  • Fall
  • Deep

• We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • America
  • Will
  • Taxes

• It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Change
  • Things
  • Wonderful

• The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Law
  • Persist

• I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Country
  • America
  • I Loved You

• The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Actor

• The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

  

  Albert Venn Dicey
  • Law
  • English

• The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Friend
  • Proud
  • Spell

• Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • Book
  • Unique

• When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

  

  Kanye West
  • Water
  • Products
  • Shirts

• In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • Culture
  • Fake

• Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Life
  • Goal

• Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.

  

  R. W. Apple
  • Life
  • Country
  • Dog

• I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Song
  • Written
  • Verses

• Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

  

  William P. Perry
  • Lonely
  • Performances
  • Occupation

• Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Jobs
  • Harder
  • Rewards