Marguerite Young Quotes

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Marguerite Young

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• I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Different
  • Today

• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • Abuse
  • Critics

• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Body

• Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • You
  • Happiness

• You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Golf

• Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Worth It
  • Not Worth It

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Best
  • Got
  • Supermodel

• Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Fun
  • Sick
  • Missing

• Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Country
  • Think
  • I Think

• Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Lead

• Being a single woman is like going off to war.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • War
  • Single
  • Woman

• Vitaque mancipio, nulli datur, omnibus usu.

  

  Lucretius

• Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

  

  Anthony Albanese

• Few people love with the violence they hate.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Profound

• Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Faith
  • Islam

• Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Forgiveness
  • Requires
  • Dislike

• Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

  

  Marguerite Young