Lois McMaster Quotes

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

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• I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

  

  Vera Wang
  • True
  • Past
  • Myself

• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Leisure

• I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • American
  • High

• I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Playing
  • Train
  • Details

• And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Song
  • Me
  • Wanted

• I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Country
  • Father
  • Age

• The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Territory
  • Taxi
  • Canoe

• Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Fear
  • Evil

• No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hope

• All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Single
  • Beach

• Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Free
  • Blessed
  • Lord

• What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Live
  • Faith
  • Courage

• We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Truth
  • Wish
  • Fall

• Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.

  

  O. J. Brigance
  • Adversity
  • Bless

• It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Freedom
  • Soldier
  • Abuse

• The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

  

  John Harington
  • Book
  • Care
  • Criticism

• Habit is the great flywheel of society.

  

  William James
  • Habit

• One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

  

  Eric Shanteau
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Get Married

• I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.

  

  Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
  • Horse
  • Views
  • Yards

• Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Blessing
  • Views
  • Curse