Margaret Drabble Quotes

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.

Margaret Drabble

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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Girl
  • You
  • Chinese

• Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Give

• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Creativity
  • See
  • Move

• People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.

  

  Becky G
  • Singing
  • Big
  • Shower

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • God
  • Game
  • Me

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• I can go out and chill with my friends, go out to dinner, and I won't get hounded like, I'm sure, Paul McCartney or somebody like that.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Friends
  • Chill

• I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • People
  • American

• When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.

  

  Brittany Bowe
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Strong

• The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Mind
  • Reality