Marguerite Young Quotes

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

Marguerite Young

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 28, 1908 - November 17, 1995

Topics

I AmPoetryMoreThanMuchActually

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

Michael Bergdahl

PeoplePerformanceResultsOutAbove

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

John Roos

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My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.

Amitava Kumar

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At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

Stephen Daldry

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To my mind, it is better to have regrets about the good aspects of your former marriage because you were able to work past some of your accumulated resentments than to have no regrets because you had to ratchet up the hostility to get out in the first place.

Stephanie Coontz

WorkGoodMarriagePastMindBetter

I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program.

Sue Kelly

I AmSecurityLong-TermWorkingWho

There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.

Stewart Stern

LoveBoyLittleReadCould

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.

Tom Wolfe

TimeWorldAmericanRealStarted

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Rumi

LoveFindWillWayThroughOwn

This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony.

Michelle Yeoh

LiveRespectWorldHarmonyUsAble

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Michael Novak

CharacterLiteratureYearsLastPope

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

Michael Kinsley

HotelYouHouseDownDevelopment

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