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

• 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
  • Age
  • Father

• 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

• But this has to be resolved intelligently and by talking to the rest of the players, who helped Santos get to this position.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Rest
  • Players
  • Position

• For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Integrity
  • Novel
  • Lines

• The center picked the ball up a little bit and we felt like we got it off right when he picked it up, ... We probably looked at it 30 times in there with Danny and I'd say we kind of got right off on it. That could have won it for us.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Game
  • Ball

• I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Belief
  • Genius
  • Blessing

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

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Blessing
  • Views
  • Curse