Colum McCann Quotes
Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?Colum McCann
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
Karen Mills -
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
Gary Shteyngart -
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
Samuel Lover -
Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
Laura Moser -
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
Laura Hillenbrand -
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
Aarti Sequeira
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
Zong Qinghou -
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
Ralph Steadman -
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
Hamilton Jordan -
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor -
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
Salman Rushdie -
As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
Wang Shi -
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
Hanoi Hannah -
I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
Bart Chilton
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Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order to be reelected in 1996. Among the states are California, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois.
David Mixner -
The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.
John Ensign -
Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.
Michael Jackson -
As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.
Brian Celio -
God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
Oswald Chambers -
Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?
Colum McCann