FastSaying

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.


Mary Decker Slaney

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax ...
MARY DECKER It's bittersweet, ... It didn't work out here. It's something I've got to swallow. They had high exp...
A.J. FEELEY Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
SHANNON MILLER Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu...
ARTEMUS WARD And they know I didn't hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I&#...
CAT OSTERMAN WHen PeopLE Cant ReSPect The DEedS You HAve DOne FOr tHEm.... ItS hiGh Tym yoU taUght THem the GeNui...
MONIKA SINGH I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. That will never waver. I always beli...
RUSSELL WILSON My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN I got high expectations for myself. I'm going to show you guys next year who I am. . . . One day you...
FRED ROUSE I immediately said to myself Ive got to do something, ... Ive got to help as many as I can. I am not...
AMY COLLINS Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I had high expectations for myself, and the team did also.
BOSS BAILEY I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it bec...
MARY DECKER SLANEY She has to be one of the favorites to win the Olympic trials,'' said Vanderbilt women's coach Jim S...
MARY DECKER SLANEY She has to be one of the favorites to win the Olympic trials,'' said Vanderbilt women's coach Jim S...
MARY DECKER SLANEY Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
JEB BUSH Steeleville, I think we kind of came in with our heads a little high, expectations a little too high...
ALLISON SPENCE Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high ex...
GAINES ADAMS I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combin...
CHRIS COOPER Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because th...
JENNY ECLAIR We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to me...
CHARLES KENNEDY I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other p...
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG Its amazing, I cant ask for anything more as a birthday gift, ... Ive wanted to win a big race like ...
BOBBY BUTLER I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I could...
DAK PRESCOTT The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to th...
NEIL STRAUSS I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.
RIO FERDINAND If you cant beat them buy them
KENNETH WATERS JR If I had any guy I'd want to have those expectations, it would be him. He's been carrying a heavy lo...
JAMES COLZIE I honestly can't take this anymore. I just cant stand it seeing you with him any longer. I tried to ...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB I always set high expectations. I always try to play within my game. My teammates got the ball to me...
DAVID PADGETT Every kid comes to school with a success instinct. We need to have high expectations for them.
DANIEL WRIGHT I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It...
CHRIS COOPER ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su...
AMBER FAITH HUN I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, S...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER Hackers have discovered IM; it's the new playground for them.
ANDREW LOCHART I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and th...
STEPHEN COLBERT Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are hig...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the b...
ANN RICHARDS I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware ...
JUDITH WRIGHT She's got a lot of ability there, and I have high expectations of her.
DAVID LONG I've been inconsistent by my standards, but I always set high goals for myself.
TUCKER HALPERN I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yours...
GISELE BUNDCHEN We're going to run what we run. We're not going to install a lot of new stuff, but the receivers hav...
GARY BARLOW Coming into the season I really have high expectations for this year's team. We have a strong senior...
JULIE MCGRAW When we set high expectations for people we usually get disappointed and set them up for failure, it...
DEBRA ROBERTS We have a lot of young players that can step up. The expectations are high on them.
RYAN SMYTH There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.
ADAM SILVERA It was obviously hard for them in their senior year in new coaching staff and new set of expectation...
ELAINE EDDY They're doing a terrific job. They have obviously high-profile positions with high expectations. We ...
STEVE PEDERSON i'd rather people hate me for who i am then have them like me for who im not
KURT COBAIN I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I li...
BRIAN POSEHN I feel great. I feel confident. There's really no added pressure. The only pressure that's going to ...
ERIC GRAY They got kind of relaxed, and I told them that they can't relax on a team like this. They got a litt...
BERTHA ORTIZ After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with the...
PAMELA STEPHENSON We're aware of them through the World Youth Cup. We might not have seen them in the green and gold, ...
RUTH AITKEN From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live ...
KENDRICK LAMAR I have not seen them on such a high for a long time. It has been a hard couple of weeks.
ALLAN PAULL I live for the high expectations.
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!
CHARLES M. SCHULZ When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taki...
DANICA MCKELLAR I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and rom...
ALICE EVE Earl had a few, and it's going to happen. I don't expect that from Marlon. I don't say much to those...
JAY CUTLER I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always return...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.
DONATELLA VERSACE If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.
JANE AUSTEN I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather t...
ANOUSKA HEMPEL I'm still looking for them to play a whole game. They just can't relax. They're too young to relax.
SHARON ALLEN I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be origin...
AALIYAH Getting the materials we needed was difficult because there was such a high demand for them.
ERIC MAJUSIAK Candy always tastes better when the expectations are high.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. ...
HOLLY BLACK Going in, I had very high expectations. We did a lot of things this season and met some goals, but n...
HAZEL MARTINEZ Mary-Kate and Ashley, who played Michelle, were great. I miss them, I love them, and I need to borro...
JOHN STAMOS hooh this is such butleg i cant believe it
DUK ONCH sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.
ROBIN SIKARWAR The decker these ***holes brought with them is top tier, but I'm going to stomp his jelly beans so h...
AMIE KAUFMAN but I am also a lot more that words cant say. words cant convey my voice, or my touch, words only pa...
JOHNNY MORPHINE Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
ROBERT BURNS I see some of myself in them. But let's not get out of control. Without a leader everyone's expectin...
DEBORAH COMPAGNONI I told them to relax because they were making me nervous. We can relax. We're good. We'll be OK.
SAM PERLOZZO Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. At different stages of my life I made different mistakes, at times costly ones. But I never for once...
OLASOT I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, whi...
WILLIAM WALLACE I think the expectations put on myself were a little too high a little too fast. But I'm starting to...
BUBBA DICKERSON Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.
BIBLE I got my high school diploma and a degree from the University of California. But most important, I g...
TONY BURTON We've got a nice pack developing; we've just got to get them a little faster. I think we'll be prett...
DEAN TOWER Its hard because you went through camp with these guys and you cant be with them when you win, you c...
GERALD HAYES But they are expensive and have very high expectations for fast promotions.
DAVID ARKLESS I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish peopl...
HASIL ADKINS Once Decker settled down a little bit and got through that first inning he really threw the ball rea...
ANDY DENNINGS All we're looking to is Tuesday. I kind of had to come down on the girls hard today. They weren't gi...
KAREN CURRAN All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I nev...
DOUGLAS SIRK We knew what we were doing wrong. Everyone had high expectations at the beginning of the season, but...
GIANNI BEER I think expectations for U.S. (tech) earnings were too high.
MASARU UEDA God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in ot...
AVA GARDNER As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
KAJOL I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myse...
WENTWORTH MILLER That seven-run inning was the key. We got a good lead, and I was able to relax and throw strikes and...
ERIC MILTON

More Mary Decker Slaney

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it bec...
MARY DECKER SLANEY She has to be one of the favorites to win the Olympic trials,'' said Vanderbilt women's coach Jim S...
MARY DECKER SLANEY She has to be one of the favorites to win the Olympic trials,'' said Vanderbilt women's coach Jim S...
MARY DECKER SLANEY I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, ...
MARY DECKER I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax ...
MARY DECKER I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a...
MARY DECKER I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn...
MARY DECKER The mistakes we regret the most are the ones we were too scared to make
OLLIE SLANEY When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and dis...
SUSAN DECKER When you have a gown, there's much more to be concerned about. Where is this crease falling? Are...
BROOKLYN DECKER The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'Y...
BROOKLYN DECKER The Mission expects the complementary nature of the booklets and the training sessions to improve th...
CHRISTOPHER DECKER Use vibration with caution. If you see you're getting any breaking of rock, you've got to back off.
DALE DECKER You can call any pharmacy in the state -- anyone -- and I can guarantee you will have an exasperated...
CHRIS DECKER Activity in this category has always played an important role at CBS Radio stations. Having Anne-Mar...
LISA DECKER If we had not filed a motion by 10:30 this morning, he would have received his sentence of natural l...
STEVEN DECKER If we get money from Fort Myers Beach, we'll be able to increase the number of acts we have, and hop...
CHIP DECKER SMA is the premier hot-mix asphalt product used anywhere in the world.
DALE DECKER I kind of downplay that. We are not a pro baseball factory.
BILL DECKER It's definitely the biggest thing I've ever seen.
BILL DECKER How are we engaging the kinesthetic learners of Coventry?
LISA DECKER That [criminal] activity that he did was done thoughtfully, cunningly by him.
STEVEN DECKER The reason the 55-Plus Club is successful is that I stay out of the way. They have committed individ...
DON DECKER We try to expand the series each year.
DON DECKER We do a lot for children with sports in the city, and we want to do more in other areas, too.
DON DECKER It just takes more to entertain kids these days.
DON DECKER It doesn't matter whether the course is available at the Y or here, as long as it's available to the...
DON DECKER That's the whole idea. Learn something inside - get your curiosity peaked - and take it outside and ...
DOUG DECKER I have a strong belief, kind of an underlying element of this whole project, that you can't really u...
DOUG DECKER We're in a run to the finish line to try to get all the pieces to the puzzle to come together.
DOUG DECKER Cornell has placed first twice and the other time it was Penn State. We are playing with the big boy...
DIANE DECKER Because the national competition happens at the National Society for Human Resource Management confe...
DIANE DECKER It has definitely raised the level of the program. It has brought us national recognition.
DIANE DECKER There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing we...
DALE DECKER We had 70 percent failing, now we have up to 70 percent proficiency.
KATIE DECKER The mix will stick to the rubber tires on the pneumatic rollers.
DALE DECKER We're usually looking for 94% density. That's a pretty high number.
DALE DECKER Get the material down as soon as possible because it's going to be difficult to deal with if you don...
DALE DECKER It's a challenge to handle this material.
DALE DECKER You're instantaneously unmotivated in the first place because you know you can't do it.
DALE DECKER Changing our habits is very complicated and takes time.
DALE DECKER We just ran out of time. We needed five minutes more. They never got down on themselves - they never...
FRANK DECKER We had a very nice run down there. We played some excellent teams.
FRANK DECKER On paper, the toughest part of our schedule is behind us.
FRANK DECKER If he doesn't get himself out of his cul-de-sac on Iraq, he may decide to step down and pave the way...
FRANK DECKER It's not a good start for cooperation if such an alliance is founded on the basis of a sheer emergen...
FRANK DECKER He can't stick to his position, but he has raised expectations among his own supporters that he will...
FRANK DECKER Then the architecture of how to build the electronic hardware and software is also done here. It is ...
DWIGHT DECKER we can sustain our world leadership if we continue to innovate.
DWIGHT DECKER We have adapted time and again,
DWIGHT DECKER If we can get two-thirds of our product development at one-fourth the cost, we come close to cutting...
DWIGHT DECKER We are placing a very large bet on our ability to shift a significant part of our development to Asi...
DWIGHT DECKER Either way, I'll be prepared, ... If I play, I'd want to get my reps in. I wouldn't want to waste a ...
ERIC DECKER The first two-and-a-half weeks of two-a-days was rough, ... To get used to the speed and how athleti...
ERIC DECKER They won't play me if I don't have to, and that's what I kind of wanted to do, ... But I get to be w...
ERIC DECKER With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're p...
BROOKLYN DECKER I don't play tennis at all.
BROOKLYN DECKER I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating...
BROOKLYN DECKER I think that I'd like to try to be a superwoman and have kids and work, so we'll see if I ca...
BROOKLYN DECKER Because I'm such a tomboy, I hate showing off my body.
BROOKLYN DECKER I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my fa...
BROOKLYN DECKER I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf...
BROOKLYN DECKER I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.
BROOKLYN DECKER I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really...
BROOKLYN DECKER I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lo...
BROOKLYN DECKER I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope...
BROOKLYN DECKER I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested ...
BROOKLYN DECKER My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping ...
BROOKLYN DECKER Anybody can come and enjoy music and see all the beautiful ladies.
LINDA DECKER You name it. … clothes make the woman. Red and purple make the woman fun.
LINDA DECKER When you go to the store, things that are red and purple just jump out at you.
LINDA DECKER Last year, we topped out at about 40 West Nile cases statewide. We have seen a dramatic decrease in ...
KATIE DECKER Our achievement has really contributed to us winning this award. Particularly with our English As A ...
KATIE DECKER Now, it's a matter of seeing whether the funding is forthcoming. We're trying to make lemonade from ...
KATIE DECKER A lot of people think terrorism is flying airplanes into buildings. It could be dropping a foreign d...
KATIE DECKER We assume our fruits and vegetables are protected. As we learned from 9/11, you can't take anything ...
KATIE DECKER This has great implications for the entire region. We know that every hotel room will be used in the...
PAUL DECKER Maybe it’s us who are the psychosis of some massive, all-knowing globule of nebulous space junk.
T. K. DECKER I don't know what will happen in the Senate. It hasn't been a real hot topic over here. I thought 10...
SEN RUSS DECKER Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.&#...
MARY MATALIN In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pastur...
MARY AUSTIN If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.
MARY AUSTIN Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clin...
MARY AUSTIN The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been ...
MARY AUSTIN What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker
MARY AUSTIN These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was....
MARY KARR To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and chil...
MARY ENGELBREIT A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
MARY QUANT To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wr...
MARY HEMINGWAY But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a...
MARY BALOGH ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up childre...
MARY WESLEY The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career t...
MARY BARRA World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!!
MARY KATE We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...
MARY ASTOR A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
MARY ASTOR It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
MARY ASTOR The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
MARY ASTOR Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
MARY SCHMICH To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain...
MARY STUART Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at ...
MARY CATHERWOOD It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the ...
MARY GRANDPRE to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
MARY OLIVER Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER Do one thing everyday that scares you.
MARY SCHMICH [I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever...
MARY BALOGH My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to...
MARY STEWART The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
MARY BUCKLEY If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f...
MARY PICKFORD I have never been contained except I made the prison
MARY EVANS The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
MARY LITTLE The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its me...
MARY WEBB It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
MARY STEWART Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
MARY WEBB Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY No pressure, no diamonds.
MARY CASE