Top 100 Angela's Quotes
#1. In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
Angela Davis
#2. Germany stands in the fight against terrorism at France's side, united with many, many others. I am convinced that, despite all the difficulties, we shall win this fight.
Angela Merkel
#3. Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don't do it to win anymore; we do it because it's what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It's our battle rhythm.
Angela Ricketts
#4. The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.
Angela Bassett
#5. Angela Merkel tries to make a career as a Bush's Suppository.
Volker Pispers
#6. What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel
Francine Prose
#7. In sum, what have we learned? First: grit, talent, and all other psychological traits relevant to success in life are influenced by genes and also by experience. Second: there's no single gene for grit, or indeed any other psychological trait.
Angela Duckworth
#8. You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think.
-Angela the Herbalist
Christopher Paolini
#9. Don't. If either one of us says another word, there's a pretty damn good chance we'd end up on your bed. Fuck it, probably the floor. Without clothes." His jaw tensed. "So, I'm going to leave.
Angela McPherson
#10. And as she flew away she shouted to the masses down below, JUST BE YOURSELF, that's unusual enough, and you will steal the show!" -Penelope, the Grumpy Pony
Angela DeVere Taylor
#11. Now that you're here, now that they know you exist, you'll never be free again. Ever. We're prisoners to our books, our fates planned long before we were born. You're no different than us. Fight your fate all you want, but deep down you know it's true.
Angela Parkhurst
#12. When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
Angela Davis
#13. I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity ... I tell ya, it made 'Angela's Ashes' look like 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'
Kevin Barry
#14. Paranoid can also be defined as "carefully smart"! Almost every episode of SVU is based on a true story; I'd watched my fill until they moronically cut Detective Stabler's fine-ass character.
Angela Graham
#15. With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler.
A knee-trmbler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it.
Frank McCourt
#16. People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point.
Angela Braly
#18. The corners of her mouth turned up in a wry smile. Better and better. Your grandmother's looks and your grandfather's brains. A deadly combination, I must say.
Angela Misri
#19. I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."
Angela Lansbury
#20. TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
Christopher Meloni
#21. A girl who is told repeatedly that she's no genius ends up winning an award for being one. The
Angela Duckworth
#22. You just gotta tell her, man,' I said. 'You just gotta say, "Angela, I really like you, but there's something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we'll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.
John Green
#23. It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.
Primadonna Angela
#24. The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
Angela Y. Davis
#25. I cannot possibly borrow underclothes from Holly and Angela. Bras especially."
"I know," said Jared.
"Oh, you do, do you?" Kami inquired. "And how do you know, may I ask?"
There was a slight flush along the lines of Jared's cheekbones. "Observation.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#26. Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.
Angela Bassett
#27. I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right.
Angela Cartwright
#28. Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
Angela Davis
#29. David, for example, comes home from work and complains to Angela that his father isn't paying him enough, especially compared to his brother, Steve, who doesn't work very hard and frequently takes off from work to play golf.
Drew S. Mendoza
#30. I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.
Angela Merkel
#31. After an hour's drive, he pulled off onto a gravel road and followed it back to a lake surrounded by woods. At one time, the place had been special. He had gone fishing there with his sons when they were younger.
Angela Roquet
#32. Silence
It has a sound, a fullness.
It's heavy with sigh of tree,
and space between breaths.
It's ripe with pause between birdsong
and crash of surf.
It's golden they say.
But no one tells us it's addictive.
Angela Long
#33. Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers ...
Angela Carter
#34. I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.
Angela Bassett
#35. Dear, Mr. Ajax ... don't ye know ... the fires of Hell are stoked by righteous lawyers! Tis a fact it is. All that hot air ... How'd ya think they get that Brimstone so hot?
Old Tom Goodling from Angela's Coven
Bruce Jenvey
#36. Richard's clenched hands fell to his sides. He turned and walked into the study, carrying his balls on a nine-carat-gold dinner plate.
Angela Marsons
#38. One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.
Angela Lam Turpin
#39. I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.
Angela Lansbury
#40. Some girls think marrying an expat is the road to riches, but that's not true." Sumi
Angela Nicoara
#41. The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.
Angela Merkel
#42. Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.
Angela Ruggiero
#43. Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.
Jeff VanderMeer
#44. They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on.
Angela Carter
#45. Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.
Angela Flournoy
#46. Sometimes it's easier to block out our feelings toward someone because the alternative is to feel the pain.
Angela Peach
#47. It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Angela Carter
#48. There's only so many times a person can call you a pea-brain before you just snap and slap the shit out of them.
Angela Roquet
#49. You all right?" Scott queried. "Sure. Why?" "You're quiet. That's not normal." "Just thinking." "Don't pull a muscle.
Angela Verdenius
#50. I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.
Angela Ahrendts
#51. I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.
Angela Kinsey
#52. Just think of me as a canvas and you as the paint, and try and imagine that we are creating a masterpiece that's so beautiful, that no other piece of art could rival its beauty. - Clint
Angela Richardson
#53. I don't know if I'd call either of them restless. Maybe hyperactive about some things. Anyway, I think as long as your soul is still attached to your body, it's impossible for it to be restless. I think you go where your spirit takes you.
Angela Johnson
#55. Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.
Angela Bassett
#56. If I were you, I'd stick to the palm reading. Now, there's a trick that won't paralyze you from the neck down.
Angela Cervantes
#57. Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.
Frank McCourt
#58. (Regarding check-cashing places):
It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.
Angela Nissel
#59. My life is like tofu - it's what gets added that makes it interesting.
Angela Johnson
#60. I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.
Angela Kinsey
#61. Everyone all right?"
Angela nodded. Holly looked up and smiled too, her smile shakier and thus more real than Ash's. "I'm okay," she said. "I see you are too. I also see you have a weapon that is on fire."
"I'm badass like that," Kami said, putting the branch down on the cobblestones.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#62. Everybody's damaged. It's just a question of how badly, and whether you're healing or still bleeding.
Angela N. Blount
#63. I love hanging out at home with my kid. It's hard to get me to leave the house.
Angela Kinsey
#64. There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.
Angela Ruggiero
#65. Why do you love me, Angela?'
Arsehole. Turning my question back on myself. 'Why do I love you?'
'It's really easy to say I love you, it's another altogether to explain why,' he said.
Lindsey Kelk
#66. Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.
Junot Diaz
#67. And let me tell you - carrying sad memories will wear you out. You've got to put them down walk away. Do whatever you must to put emotional space between yourself and your past. That's the only way you're going to make it through.
Angela Elwell Hunt
#68. It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was lasting, and I loved it so much. I also love Nora Ephron. I gobble up everything she writes. Also, I love Anthony Bourdain, very irreverent and funny.
Isabel Gillies
#69. Tristan glanced my way and grinned. Lifting our hands, he brushed a feathery kiss across my skin. "What's got you so quiet, Spud?"
My knuckles tingled where his lips touched. "Oh, you."
His smile deepened. "Well, then carry on.
Angela McPherson
#70. Alma had been falling in love with a crazy terrier that thought "stay" mean to take off like a rocket. Gaby knew he'd already taken off with Alma's heart.
Angela Cervantes
#71. You don't understand guys Norah, we don't always think, we just do. It's hard for us to focus clearly sometimes and we end up just acting on impulse, which isn't always a smart thing.
Angela Richardson
#72. It's extraordinary how much you can tell about a person from their interpretations. It can show you how they see the world, and how they might see you.
Angela Richardson
#73. The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.
Angela Featherstone
#74. And I sort of felt her...you know."
Alan made an exaggerated shape of a heart.
"You touched her heart?" Mike queried.
"No! Her bum. It's sort of, you know, heart shaped. Big heart."
He flexed his fingers, remembering the feel of it. "Soft.
Angela Verdenius
#75. The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
Angela Carter
#76. I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.
Angela Davis
#77. I only date college guys."
"You don't know any college guys," Kami pointed out.
Angela's gaze went to Kami, and she smiled. "Which leaves me with more time for napping.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#78. But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.
Margaret Mazzantini
#79. A deal's a deal. Nothing is for nothing. Everything has its price.
Marguerite Bennett
#80. What's going on with you? Jared asked out of the blue.
Beginning a new era of journalistic history, Kami told him, sending her cheer through their connection. Also, to be perfectly honest, Angela and I were slapping our asses.
As one does.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#81. Are we fruit of the same tree? No - Angela is everything I wanted to be and never was. What is she? She's the waves of the sea. While I'm the dense and gloomy forest. I'm in the depths. Angela scatters in sparkling fragments. Angela is my vertigo. Angela is my reverberation.
Clarice Lispector
#82. My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.
Kerry Condon
#83. Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.
Angela Kinsey
#84. It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.
Angela Davis
#85. I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
Peter Thiel
#86. I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.
Isabel Gillies
#87. I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its good or not - am in love with acting and the stage and characters and the ability to reach and to touch people, so that's where, I guess, that's where my heart will reside, by and large.
Angela Bassett
#88. Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.
Angela Bassett
#89. Unfortunately, because the theater is always a poor relation when it comes to making the nut, it's not easy to get the audience in to see a play, unless you have a name that is recognizable, that the audience wants to see and is prepared to pay the $125 to see.
Angela Lansbury
#90. Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.
Angela Carter
#91. Through the light splaying off the roof, Angela's falling blonde hair looked cream-colored, intricately stitched together like a veil.
Greg Metcalf
#92. If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life,
Angela Merkel
#93. We must begin to create a revolutionary, multiracial women's movement that seriously addresses the main issues affecting poor and working-class women.
Angela Y. Davis
#94. Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only us, each moment shaping who we are, into what we will become.
Cynthia Hand
#95. I know ... that's why you're down here and not enjoying some picnic in a golden meadow amongst the harps and puffy clouds.
Lucifer from Angela's Coven
Bruce Jenvey
#96. Prosperity and wealth have convinced us to be content in the world, and so we close our eyes, ignoring the world's need as well as its evil.
Angela Elwell Hunt
#97. It's still his favorite dish, though. War and rancid meat.
Angela Ricketts
#98. What's a lightwave ship?"
"UFO, basically."
"Cool," Angela said.
Peter F. Hamilton
#99. The soft smile on Tristan's face as he drove with his left hand while holding mine in his right screamed louder than any words ever could. He was mine.
Angela McPherson
#100. We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.
Angela Ahrendts
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