Lois McMaster Quotes

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Without
  • WIld

• I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Angry

• You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Actor
  • Issues

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • You
  • Two

• I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • True
  • Nice
  • Thrilled

• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• 'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Mind
  • Waves

• Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.

  

  Vanity

• If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.

  

  Sam Harris
  • God

• The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.

  

  Amos Oz

• The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • People
  • Power
  • History

• The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • People
  • Why
  • Theatre

• I do create songs and play the guitar. But my focus is definitely on acting. I think, if there's going to be singing involved in my career, it would probably be in musical theater.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Singing

• So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Time
  • Long

• Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

  

  Conrad Hall
  • Music

• Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Time
  • Victory
  • Events

• Oh, no, I think I'd die on my own. I'd be so lonely. Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my room and sometimes cry. It is so hard to make friends, and there are some things you can't talk to your parents or family about. I sometimes walk around the neighborhood at night, just hoping to find someone to talk to. But I just end up coming home.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Die

• There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Victory
  • Survivor
  • Massacres