Loretta Swit Quotes

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

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• I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Intention
  • Marrying
  • Kennedy

• They're not poodles, they're art.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Art

• There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Law
  • Very

• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

  

  Sally Field
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Half

• You know I'm weak on good looks.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Reading
  • Exercise
  • Walking

• I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.

  

  L. Frank Baum

• We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Different
  • Prayer

• I'm on top cuz I deserve to beSo simmer down, calm your nerves at leastSpeak your words with peaceBefore you lay out on the curb deceased.

  

  T.I.
  • Words
  • Calm

• And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Words

• On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Suffering
  • Tears

• I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

  Chaka Fattah
  • People
  • Work
  • Risk

• Probably the biggest problem I had was I didn't understand the importance of scheduling.

  

  Anne Donovan

• For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

  

  Bjork
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • People
  • Black
  • Identity

• You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • Light
  • Mistake
  • Waiting

• But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

  

  David Shuster
  • Weird

• Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Comforting

• Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

  

  Loretta Swit