Lois McMaster Quotes

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

Lois McMaster

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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • American
  • Cinema
  • Crown

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Become

• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Why
  • London
  • Marathon

• 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

• A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.

  

  David Cohen
  • Entrepreneur

• In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger
  • Good
  • Bad

• Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • Live
  • Job
  • English

• Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

  

  Freddy Fender

• I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.

  

  August Wilson
  • Up

• I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country.

  

  Ambrose Burnside
  • Great
  • Country
  • Enemy

• We do assert, however, that we must follow the road of liberation even though it may cost millions of nuclear war victims. In the struggle to death between two systems we cannot think of anything but the final victory of socialism or its relapse as a consequence of the nuclear victory of imperialist aggression.

  

  Che Guevara
  • May
  • War
  • Death

• It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.

  

  William Wickenden
  • Waiting
  • Progress
  • Philosophy

• I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Victory
  • Triumph
  • Essentials