Terry McMillan quote: "I'm also free to move forward since I'm now out of this hellish holding pattern my life has been spinning inside of for the past nine months."

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
TERRY MCMILLAN

For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy.
But then he forgot all those pr...
TERRY MCMILLAN

Every human being I know craves love and affection.
TERRY MCMILLAN

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
TERRY MCMILLAN

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
TERRY MCMILLAN

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes t...
TERRY MCMILLAN

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That'...
TERRY MCMILLAN

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your o...
TERRY MCMILLAN

The Interruption of Everything
TERRY MCMILLAN

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that ever...
TERRY MCMILLAN

It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.
TERRY MCMILLAN

He has lost his (expletive) mind if he thinks I'm going to let him walk off into the sunset with my ...
TERRY MCMILLAN

I wrote the book in order to give myself permission,
TERRY MCMILLAN

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one
TERRY MCMILLAN

She has a certain kind of power and sensuality and strength. The way I perceived Stella, she has it,...
TERRY MCMILLAN

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about fin...
TERRY MCMILLAN

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
TERRY MCMILLAN

You didn't say anything about being gay. You said everything but that.
TERRY MCMILLAN

That's part of their problem -- they're cowards. I think that he (Plummer) should be charged with at...
TERRY MCMILLAN

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want...
TERRY MCMILLAN

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much ...
TERRY MCMILLAN

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when...
TERRY MCMILLAN

How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
TERRY MCMILLAN

I thought you said you were trying to quit swearing!
Go to hell, Paulette. I will. As soon as I...
TERRY MCMILLAN

يتعلق الكثيرون منا بما ليس في أيديهم ، وما لا يمكن أن يك...
TERRY MCMILLAN

I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpet...
TERRY MCMILLAN

Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous...
TERRY MCMILLAN

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.
TERRY MCMILLAN

Gay is the new straight, in case you haven't noticed.
TERRY MCMILLAN

I pray for my sister. That she be allowed to discover grace and find peace without drugs. That her h...
TERRY MCMILLAN

There was not a lot of conflict in the book. Most it was internal conflict so we had to externalize ...
TERRY MCMILLAN

You can use our product to upgrade your database, pause your database [and] do work on it. The custo...
ALAN MCMILLAN

Oracle's changed the game in terms of its acquisitions. IBM's stated policy is that it will not comp...
ALAN MCMILLAN

A back injury, while it may not be life-threatening, can disable people for an extraordinary length ...
ALAN MCMILLAN

You can use our product to upgrade your database, pause your database [and] do work on it. The custo...
ALAN MCMILLAN

The results of this eight state regional program over just three weeks prove conclusively that high ...
ALAN MCMILLAN

The U.S. ranks behind virtually every other developed country when it comes to seat belt use, and ne...
ALAN MCMILLAN

In some cases, the globalization and expansion of new business activities in developing nations is c...
ALAN MCMILLAN

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
TOM MCMILLAN

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love th...
TRACY MCMILLAN

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.
TRACY MCMILLAN

I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut d...
TRACY MCMILLAN

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a ...
TRACY MCMILLAN

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in be...
TRACY MCMILLAN

Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation ...
TRACY MCMILLAN

Hallelujah. You don't want to be remembered for anything we were facing. It's only one game, but it'...
NATE MCMILLAN

It would have been great to have Stephen here, ... It would have put Pittsburgh on the map. He's the...
RICHARD MCMILLAN

The sport of climbing is very social and egalitarian. You shouldn't feel intimidated at going to a c...
LINDA MCMILLAN

The similarity is the spontaneity of the unexpected great news, ... No one expected Mario's comeback...
TOM MCMILLAN

You can use our product to upgrade your database, pause your database [and] do work on it. The custo...
ALAN MCMILLAN

Lookin' buff, No. 8, ... Lookin' buff.
NATE MCMILLAN

The similarity is the spontaneity of the unexpected great news. No one expected Mario's comeback ann...
TOM MCMILLAN

We wanted more movement with the ball. We only had fourteen free throws, so we didn't get to the fou...
NATE MCMILLAN

You can use our product to upgrade your database, pause your database [and] do work on it. The custo...
ALAN MCMILLAN

If they force me to subdivide, they're going to raise hell because it will ruin their views.
WARREN MCMILLAN

I think sometimes, you're going to go back and forth. There's certain things that I believe in as a ...
NATE MCMILLAN

Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially ...
TRACY MCMILLAN

We didn't handle pressure well at all. This was a total breakdown in controlling the ball on one end...
NATE MCMILLAN

I need to ask some questions. I need to sit down and talk to some guys tomorrow, and just figure out...
NATE MCMILLAN

The most important thing to me wasn't to keep up (academically) just to play. If you're going to do ...
ANDRE MCMILLAN

They both leveled out pretty well.
ANDRE MCMILLAN

He's a real good piano player and, when he makes beat, I like going to the room and listening.
ANDRE MCMILLAN

Everybody had had an opportunity to play and now is the time to show what you are capable of doing.
NATE MCMILLAN

If that's the case, the earlier we can do it after diagnosis the better.
DAVID MCMILLAN

We want him to commit. If Zach commits to working and getting himself in shape and committed to carr...
NATE MCMILLAN

It doesn't really feel like a party to me. There is a sense of the tragedy, but there is also that S...
BOB MCMILLAN

As a policy, we're not going to comment and we're not going to confirm or deny any of these inquirie...
TOM MCMILLAN

Most companies will wait until the very last moment, even weeks, before they officially postpone. It...
DAVID MCMILLAN

It's the marginal deals which will be postponed.
DAVID MCMILLAN

We've also completely rebuilt the apron on the western side of the terminal, where the airplanes par...
BO MCMILLAN

The negotiations over airfares really did a lot to increase traffic. Our major corporations are util...
BO MCMILLAN

The higher spending only explains a third of this reduction.
JOHN MCMILLAN

Juan was the one guy who was making shots. That's what we've got to do, make some shots.
NATE MCMILLAN

Think about it. It's a Friday in July in Pittsburgh and it's 4:30. You don't sell season tickets on ...
TOM MCMILLAN

Without the upbringing I received from my Mother, I am not the good and decent person I am today. Th...
MIKE MCMILLAN

I think most shows happen like this for actors, ... They're like a river. You hop on it and you take...
RICHARD MCMILLAN

Lots of people feel more alive when they're riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this...
TRACY MCMILLAN

It's great to get the win on Senior Night. We're conference champs. Yes!
CHANTAE MCMILLAN

It was a lot of fun. This hasn't happened in years. But, we want more. Hopefully, we still have dist...
CHANTAE MCMILLAN

I just stopped thinking and let it fly.
CHANTAE MCMILLAN

That's a tough situation to come off. I had a surgery before, and to be playing in this league and n...
NATE MCMILLAN

The state mandated amount is totally insufficient.
DUNCAN MCMILLAN

He was at the defense table, and he fell out in the floor between the defense table and the bench wh...
DUNCAN MCMILLAN

This is an elementary education problem that any one district cannot solve on its own.
DUNCAN MCMILLAN

love
is giving everything too easily
then staying to try and claw it back
ANDREW MCMILLAN

There is no such thing as 'getting' a guy, house and kids. There is only surrendering to the...
TRACY MCMILLAN

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for ...
TRACY MCMILLAN

There certainly is enough cash sitting on the sidelines to make a viable IPO market.
DAVID MCMILLAN

The average international consumer is eating more expensively. With really good restaurants appearin...
DAVID MCMILLAN

The calendar is still pretty full, but the market is in a wait-and-see mode.
DAVID MCMILLAN

Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.
TRACY MCMILLAN

Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.

HAROLD MCMILLAN

Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rat...
HAROLD MCMILLAN

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MCMILLAN

Starting off I think there were doubts. Nobody outside of our school, maybe even our gym, thought we...
JAMELLE MCMILLAN

It wasn't meant for us today. Shots we would normally knock down weren't falling.
JAMELLE MCMILLAN

We got too comfortable with our lead. We didn't match their intensity at the end of the game.
JAMELLE MCMILLAN

I saw three guys collapse and I put it up there.
JAMELLE MCMILLAN

We came out slow and they still were on that same upper level, and from then on we couldn't match it...
JAMELLE MCMILLAN

Right now, we're not where we need to be. We've got to play 32 minutes and tonight was a prime examp...
JAMELLE MCMILLAN

We have to be strong for young boys.
HELEN MCMILLAN

All of a sudden she's gone ... in minutes. In minutes they've lost a daughter, lost a child.
HELEN MCMILLAN

he looks the way
silence looks before it’s broken
ANDREW MCMILLAN

She told her mom not to cry and to stay strong.
LONDELL MCMILLAN

Why should a female hip-hop artist have to spend time in an urban concrete jungle while other female...
LONDELL MCMILLAN

She told her mom not to cry and to stay strong,
LONDELL MCMILLAN

She's no longer fearful of the judicial system.
LONDELL MCMILLAN

It's a shame to see a senior get hurt like that.
LEE MCMILLAN

They have to be hiding something. If they weren't hiding something, why wouldn't they release it?
LEE MCMILLAN

What they're doing is, they're hiding something.
LEE MCMILLAN

We didn't think about anything being wrong with it. But we really hadn't drunk any. I had half a cup...
LINDA MCMILLAN

oh love, doesn’t the fact that the world is so big,
laid out like ripe fruit
make you wa...
ANDREW MCMILLAN

Dixon came to my office after the game and was the first to apologize to me and to the team. He just...
NATE MCMILLAN

I try to spend the city's money as if it were my own.
RICHARD MCMILLAN

It's a real mind game. There are so many crevices, bends and directions in the play, ... There are t...
RICHARD MCMILLAN

In my opinion, neither way is easy. If I'm going to struggle between artist and a normal 9 to 5 job....
ERIN MCMILLAN

We either had to exit the business or become a much larger player. When they [purchased U.S. Foodser...
C. STEVEN MCMILLAN

We were very pleased with the results. We had a number of very interested buyers in this business. T...
C. STEVEN MCMILLAN

It's basically a transaction between two old friends.
C. STEVEN MCMILLAN

We're obviously undervalued, but I'm sure most of my peers would say the same. I think the final tes...
C. STEVEN MCMILLAN

It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit...
TERRY TEACHOUT

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
RANDALL TERRY

If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I eve...
TERRY BRADSHAW

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments...
RANDALL TERRY

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correctio...
RANDALL TERRY

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stu...
RANDALL TERRY

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Ol...
RANDALL TERRY

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All ...
RANDALL TERRY

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money ...
RANDALL TERRY

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is r...
RANDALL TERRY

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are...
RANDALL TERRY

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and s...
RANDALL TERRY

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
RANDALL TERRY

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong ...
RANDALL TERRY

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily toward...
RANDALL TERRY

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
RANDALL TERRY

He who frames the question wins the debate.
RANDALL TERRY

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other ...
RANDALL TERRY

We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dile...
RANDALL TERRY

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
RANDALL TERRY

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
RANDALL TERRY

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
RANDALL TERRY

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, the...
RANDALL TERRY

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
RANDALL TERRY

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredib...
RANDALL TERRY

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That ...
RANDALL TERRY

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a f...
RANDALL TERRY

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
RANDALL TERRY

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignor...
TERRY PRATCHETT

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has idea...
TERRY PRATCHETT

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun v...
TERRY MCAULIFFE

The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separate...
TERRY CREWS

It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was rat...
TERRY GLAVIN

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each pie...
TERRY WAITE

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect t...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at partie...
TERRY EAGLETON

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that f...
TERRY SOUTHERN

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS

The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democrati...
TERRY GLAVIN

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.
TERRY MCAULIFFE

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
TERRY PRATCHETT

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
TERRY PRATCHETT

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money....
TERRY PRATCHETT

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, becaus...
TERRY PRATCHETT

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite th...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
TERRY PRATCHETT

The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation o...
TERRY GLAVIN

I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&...
TERRY WOGAN

The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures thems...
TERRY WOGAN

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
TERRY GOODKIND

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head ful...
TERRY PRACHETT

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisian...
TERRY BRADSHAW

People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best in...
TERRY MCAULIFFE

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend...
TERRY GILLIAM

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,...
TERRY ZWIGOFF

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#...
TERRY ZWIGOFF

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought ...
TERRY EAGLETON

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executi...
TERRY TEACHOUT

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st...
TERRY GILLIAM

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing...
TERRY EAGLETON

I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s...
TERRY TEACHOUT

Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lo...
TERRY GLAVIN

It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan ge...
TERRY GLAVIN

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the serge...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
TERRY GROSS

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
TERRY PRATCHETT

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brand...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no la...
TERRY PRATCHETT

They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...
TERRY PRATCHETT

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
HELEN TERRY

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identif...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" TERRY PRATCHETT

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's wha...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the s...
TERRY PRATCHETT

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...
TERRY PRATCHETT

If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and tryi...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I'm also free to move forward since I'm now out of this hellish holding pattern my life has been spinning inside of for the past nine months.

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I'm also free to move forward since I'm now out of this hellish holding pattern my life has been spinning inside of for the past nine months.

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