Lois McMaster Quotes

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

Lois McMaster

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• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Mental

• I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Always
  • Never
  • Born

• I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Question

• Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Laws

• I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Why
  • Example

• Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Saying
  • Means

• If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • True

• The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Alone

• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Mind

• Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• I like to do things that I want to see myself. With 'Defending Your Life,' I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that 'Ghost' was about, because that didn't make any sense to me. So that's the reason: it fills a hole.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Life
  • Death

• The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

  

  Lou Boudreau
  • Time
  • Running
  • Moving

• God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

  

  Joel C. Rosenberg
  • God
  • Prayer

• There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.

  

  David Friedman
  • Believe
  • Singing

• This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

  

  Martin Chemnitz
  • God
  • Writing
  • True

• Liberals have been overselling the threat to reproductive rights for decades.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Threat
  • Liberals
  • Reproductive Rights

• I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

  

  Chris Paine
  • Decision
  • Save
  • Cars

• When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

  

  Mickey Hart
  • Different
  • Feelings
  • Body

• I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Feelings
  • Stupid
  • Ignorance