Mary Wesley Quotes

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Mary Wesley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 24, 1912 - December 30, 2002

Topics

ChildSomeoneYouGoKnowWant

A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.

Jiang Wen

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There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

John Ortberg

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Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people.

Rob Portman

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The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Roberto Unger

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The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

Mary Bono

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What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they're more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

Michelle Obama

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I always want to portray veterans in a positive light, and since I got into acting full time, I've made that part of my goal.

Jon Huertas

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Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

Chris Jordan

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My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way.

Christen Press

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If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

Colin Greenwood

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We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Bob Taft

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