Maria Teresa Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state. — Dani Shapiro

The essence of spirituality does not consist in a specialised or narrow interest in some imagined part of life, but in a certain enlightened attitude to all the various situations which obtain in life. It covers and includes the whole of life. All the material things of this world can be made subservient to the divine game, and when they are thus subordained they become auxiliary to the self-affirmation of the spirit. — Meher Baba

Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. — Arthur Miller

If you care more about them than they do about you, they hate you for it. — Tana French

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world. — Jeremiah Burroughs

Age is no longer the primary factor that determines where you are on the map. Life is now less about how old you are and more about when you decide to live. — Jon Acuff

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential. — Arnold Mindell

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough. — Stanley Elkin

What most people do is give space to people's quality and deal with their garbage. Actually, you should do it the other way around. Deal with who they are and give space to their garbage. Keep interacting with them as if they were God. And every time you get garbage from them, give space to the garbage and go back and interact with them as if they were God. — Werner Erhard

One reason writers write is out of revenge. — Cynthia Ozick

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning". — Alan Turing

But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing. — Laura Brown

My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy. — Patricia Leavy

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. — John Ruskin