Colleen McCullough Quotes

There was some justice in his pain.

Colleen McCullough

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• I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Man
  • You
  • Hand

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Cool
  • Stand

• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Change
  • Lost
  • Story

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Family
  • History
  • Amazing

• I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Career
  • Literature

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • She
  • Chicago
  • Stand

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Up
  • Personality
  • Reach

• I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Baby

• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Law
  • Fit
  • Object

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Follow

• I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

  

  Douglas Dunn
  • Why

• I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Pain
  • Marriage
  • Wonder

• And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of Order, the Fountain of Justice, and the Protector in all ages of the world of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its Government and give it all possible success and duration consistent with the ends of His providence.

  

  John Adams
  • World
  • May
  • Success

• There was some justice in his pain.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Pain
  • Justice