Margaret Oliphant Quotes

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Margaret Oliphant

• Pain

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reflect

• I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Role
  • News
  • Evening

• Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Night
  • Beginning
  • End

• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Angry
  • Jump

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Summer

• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Horse

• As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Talk
  • Wear
  • Soon

• I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Best

• It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hate

• Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Hand
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Life
  • Watch
  • Go

• Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • People
  • Woman
  • Red

• I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

  

  Jane Green
  • Important
  • Friendship

• Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Pain
  • Growth
  • Wall

• But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Pain

• Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Pain
  • Teacher
  • Man Is

• What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

  

  Margaret Oliphant
  • Pain