Gail Sheehy Quotes

In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

Gail Sheehy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1937

Topics

FearJobFunMindFeelingsSay

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

Jimmy Wales

CommunityPeopleCareTake CareBad

You and I are the players, God's our head coach, and we're all playing the biggest game of all.

Joe Gibbs

GodGameYouCoachHeadPlaying

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

John Shelby Spong

TruthReligionYouProveNeedGet

I loved the medium of TV from the first moment that I got into a studio.

Sophie Aldred

MomentLovedFirstGotStudioTV

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.

Smokey Robinson

FamilyI CanSayMotownMythAbout

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

Robert Caro

LegalLongYouKnowThreeHand

Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because I'd love to pay people more. I'd love to see rising wages for everybody.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

LovePeopleLaborMorePaySee

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

Douglas Brinkley

SadAnniversaryBridgeRightBeen

I touch the future. I teach.

Christa McAuliffe

FutureTeacherTeachTouch

I refuse to take shortcuts.

Colin Kaepernick

ShortcutsTakeRefuse

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

Brian Greene

MathematicsLanguageNumbersFollow

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

Brendan Gleeson

GoodIntegrityPeopleWritingSmall

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