Margaret Mitchell Quotes

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

Margaret Mitchell

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• In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Politics
  • Disagree

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Power

• There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • You
  • Back
  • Three

• Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Business
  • Body
  • Negative

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Music
  • New

• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Team
  • Dinner

• What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Alone
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Life
  • European
  • Swedish

• Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Google

• I am excited about this. We've got half of our goal. I'd love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Goal

• I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Together
  • Hands
  • Posture

• God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • True
  • Religion

• Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

  

  Ben Harper
  • People
  • Music
  • Mind

• Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Up
  • Democracy
  • Camera

• I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Keep
  • Subject
  • Inquiry

• When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • World
  • Stand
  • Initiated

• I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • America

• My entire pregnancy with Major, I was nervous about enduring another long labor.

  

  Eva Amurri
  • Labor
  • Nervous
  • Pregnancy

• The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Conversation
  • Interested
  • Keep