Meredith Combs Quotes & Sayings

In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison. — Vladimir Sorokin

Meredith Combs, the social worker responsible for selecting the stream of adoptive families that gave me back, wanted to talk to me about blame. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments. — Matt Cameron

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising. — Stone Gossard

We are told repeatedly in Scripture to prepare for hardships; so why do we believe our lives should be characterized by ease? — Patsy Clairmont

This is not ambition. This is desperation. — Douglas Coupland

They needed the numbers, so they directed their creativity and resourcefulness toward getting those numbers, rather than toward effective performance. — Edward L. Deci

If she were alive, someone would need to return her. If she were dead, nature would have to give her up. — Gillian Flynn

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless. — Robert D. Kaplan

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down. — Katherine Boo

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of. — Tatyana Ali

How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave. — Lisa Scottoline

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing. — Mary Burke

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace. — Henry A. Kissinger

Change takes time, forethought and knowledge, as well as an envisioned goal. — Obiora Embry

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome. — Sarah Addison Allen