Margaret Atwood Quotes

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Margaret Atwood

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• I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Sometimes
  • Hopeless
  • Subway

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Value
  • Seriously

• I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Work
  • Love
  • Help

• I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Alone

• I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Long
  • Bad

• When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Never
  • Idea

• I'm confident in the fighter I am, and I have nothing to worry about.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Worry
  • Confident
  • Fighter

• I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Say
  • Interview

• I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Conservative
  • Type
  • Wondering

• Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Surround Yourself

• It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Up
  • Women
  • Nice

• People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Important
  • Facts

• I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • School
  • High
  • Beginning

• I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Love
  • Business
  • Risk

• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Home
  • Free
  • Doing

• A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me away from dinner. 'I need the chords for that song right now!' No, it can wait.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Friends
  • Song

• In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Great
  • Love
  • Beauty

• I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium.. .if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.

  

  Lee Krasner
  • Small
  • Challenge
  • Painting

• It's not unusual for a luxury company to be born from a single product and then diversify. Louis Vuitton began with luggage, and Gucci with leather goods.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Single

• The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author.

  

  Nevill Drury
  • Religions
  • Teachings
  • Encompass

• An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

  

  Margaret Atwood