Octavia E. Butler Quotes

He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.

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• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • You
  • Audience
  • Cry

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Day
  • Proud

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Past
  • Change
  • Go

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Career
  • Wise
  • Greatest

• When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Freedom
  • Nation
  • Asking

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Role

• Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Same
  • Behavior
  • Frontier

• You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Nature
  • See
  • Development

• It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • People
  • Important
  • Team

• The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • More

• The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Church

• I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.

  

  John Edwards
  • Believe
  • Running
  • Focus

• Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Yourself
  • Give
  • Credit

• I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Kids

• We truly know only what we have taught ourselves.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding

• He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Truth