Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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• Misunderstanding

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• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Children
  • Think
  • Nice

• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Anger
  • Greed
  • Follow

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • America
  • Morning

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Need
  • Will

• I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Guy
  • Technology

• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • America
  • Discussion

• As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Alone

• It's kind of fun to be sexy.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Sexy

• 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Power
  • Words

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Rights
  • Estate
  • Requests

• I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kids

• In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Gay

• Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

  

  Chaka Khan
  • Trying

• Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Violence
  • Justification
  • Legitimate

• The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

  

  Louis A. Johnson
  • America
  • Today
  • Peace

• Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• By suns unsettling kist. Out through the utmost gates of space, Past where the gray stars drift, To the widening Infinite, my soul Glides on, a vessel swift, Yet loses not her anchorage In yonder azure rift.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Space

• In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Peace
  • Affairs
  • Misunderstanding