Dolly Parton Quotes

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

Dolly Parton

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Hard
  • Survival
  • Reasons

• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
  • Trip

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Heart
  • Love
  • For Her

• The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Silly
  • Ruling
  • Paula

• I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Tough

• I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Dating

• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Think
  • Way
  • President

• Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Poetry

• Gansey asked, 'Do you have time to run an errand with us? Do you have work? Homework?''No homework. I got suspended,' Blue replied.'Get the fuck out,' Ronan said, but with admiration. 'Sargent, you asshole.'Blue reluctantly allowed him to bump fists with her.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Work
  • Blue

• Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.

  

  Paracelsus
  • God
  • Respect
  • Practice

• The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.

  

  Elias Canetti

• We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Heart
  • America
  • Future

• I don't believe in happy endings.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Believe
  • Happy

• It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.

  

  Lisa Murkowski

• Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.

  

  Laurence Fishburne

• No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Hope
  • Question
  • Justice

• Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.

  

  Peter Guber
  • Heart
  • Technology

• I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Heart