Margaret Oliphant Quotes

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Margaret Oliphant

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• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Promise
  • Performance

• You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Impact
  • Generosity

• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Song
  • Space
  • Emotional

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Taken

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

  

  Iman
  • Time
  • Important
  • Age

• You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Down
  • Slow

• 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

• I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Actor

• We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Respect

• Tone matters more than words.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Words
  • Matters
  • Tone

• There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Done
  • Past
  • Interesting

• We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Trying
  • War

• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Men
  • May
  • Man

• Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Misfortunes
  • Secrecy

• The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Writing
  • Wise
  • Riches

• Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Important
  • Respect

• Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

  

  Ned Rorem
  • Up
  • Childhood

• I had opportunities to play with other people and give my self some sort of security, but for some reason I wanted to play solo and just put it out there.

  

  Bill Orcutt
  • Reason
  • Security
  • Opportunities

• Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

  

  Margaret Oliphant