Lois McMaster Quotes

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

Lois McMaster

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• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Problems

• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Time
  • New
  • Chapter

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Important
  • Single
  • Justice

• As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Good
  • Want
  • Artist

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• We really shouldn't be putting a label on size. Fashion is for all, and I think confidence and happiness is more important than dress labels.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Confidence

• I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Great

• It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Crazy

• I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • People
  • Good

• It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

  

  Lili Taylor

• Senator Badger did not call. During the whole of the last session of Congress, he did not call on me. He is a bitter partisan and is no doubt sensible that during the presidential canvass of 1844, he did me gross injustice.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Doubt
  • Bitter
  • Presidential

• I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Life
  • Stress

• If I'm in the position where I get to hire someone, where I get to decide who joins me on tour, then I am mindful about that, and I try to suggest women that I know who I think deserve more exposure.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Women

• It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
  • People

• I'll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.

  

  Jeff Fisher

• The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Children
  • Help
  • Son

• It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

  

  William Shenstone
  • Long
  • Passion
  • Choices

• The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

  

  Will Self
  • Past
  • Quality
  • Shadow

• Shakespeare has been adapted by Akira Kurosawa. 'Dangerous Liaisons' has been adapted into a Chinese movie. 'Blood Simple', the Coen brothers movie, was adapted by Zhang Yimou.

  

  Chin Han
  • Movie
  • Simple
  • Chinese

• Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Choices
  • Events
  • Horrible