Top 100 Melinda Quotes
#1. I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Anonymous
#3. Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.
Neil Diamond
#4. Twenty minutes later, I walk out of Melinda's hotel with a plate of finger sandwiches, a bag of prostitute clothes, and a weird wedge on my head that makes me look like you could tip me upside down and fill it with cream of mushroom.
I need another donut.
Cyn Balog
#5. Do you have a name for the baby?" Nurse Melinda inquires. "Roshini," I answer. "What does it mean?" she asks. "A ray of light," I say, drawing my baby closer. "Roshini means a ray of light.
Gayathri Ramprasad
#6. Jack, there are only two of us here. One of us is going to push him out, one of us is
going to catch him. Which job do you want?
(Melinda talking to her husband)
Robyn Carr
#7. With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.
Kavita Ramdas
#8. On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing
the list so I can milk it.
Warren Buffett
#9. I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
Brian Wilson
#10. So here's the question," Melinda led in. "Who's Tall, Dark and Smoldering?
Julie James
#11. I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.
Bill Gates
#12. I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.
Lady Gaga
#13. No radio, no telephone," Melinda observed. "No mod cons whatsoever in Hloubetin, are there."
"We have a hamster," Jacob said.
"Not traditionally considered an amenity.
Caleb Crain
#14. The shriek that erupted from Melinda was loud enough to wake the dead. "Get it off me, get it off me!" She bolted from the crumpled side of the tent in hysterics, ripping at her bodice.
Merry Farmer
#15. Damn, boy. Look at you. You're almost as old as me." "Hardly." Ricky laughed. "Look at you. You're getting gray, what's this?" "Melinda, naturally. She's working me over. You should be careful, Rick. Strong, sexy women? They'll kill you slow." "What a way to go, huh?" "Yeah,
Robyn Carr
#16. Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations.
Willow Bay
#17. Does Playboy still run fiction?"
"I have absolutely no idea, Melinda," he said, grinning.
Robyn Carr
#18. I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#19. Without Melinda, you'd have no Camus."
I exhale. "I know." I know it to my fucking bones.
Hannah Moskowitz
#20. But what are they?" Annie asked.
"An omphalos, probably," said Jacob.
"A what, dear?" Melinda asked.
"A bellybutton of the world."
"I didn't know it had one.
Caleb Crain
#21. No smiling!" said Melinda. "Look stern, everyone."...
He kissed her. "Our American Gothic."
"Sweet Montana Farms style." And she kissed him back.
Roxanne Snopek
#22. Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who he thinks is like him in many important ways? It was a noble and sensible decision.
Charlie Munger
#23. I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
Melinda Gates
#25. I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.
Melinda Clarke
#26. As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
Melinda Gates
#27. Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
Melinda Gates
#28. I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.
Melinda Clarke
#29. We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
Melinda Gates
#30. You're here," he says, and his voice is like sunshine, like honey, it's warm and rich and moreish. "I'm so very glad." Where Silas's voice is spikes and edges, every word a warning, this man's voice is smooth, velvety and beckoning.
Melinda Salisbury
#31. If I come to you, I want it to be because I am choosing you, for no reason other than that. I don't want for to ever doubt it.
Melinda Salisbury
#32. Change is both exciting and scary. Learning new skills is the same. Having an idea of what to expect emotionally is as important as knowing what to expect from both real and imagined limitations.
Melinda West Seifert
#33. I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.
Melinda Gates
#34. Maria loved the way she and Liz could just sit in the same room together, each doing their own thing, sometimes talking, sometimes not. You had to be really good friends with someone before it felt this comfortable to basically ignore them for long stretches of time.
Melinda Metz
#35. I do believe that one way to have a destiny is to choose one.
Melinda McGraw
#36. Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
Melinda Gates
#37. We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
Melinda Gates
#38. We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that ... sometimes every week.
Melinda Gates
#39. That's the problem with fairy tales, they change with the telling.
Melinda Salisbury
#40. When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
Melinda Gates
#41. You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.
Melinda Gates
#42. We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'
Melinda Gates
#43. That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
Melinda Gates
#45. Forgive me again." He lifts the carafe and refreshes his goblet. "What happened to those two children who laughed at dandelion fuzz?" he says softly. "Are they gone forever, do you think?
Melinda Salisbury
#47. The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.
Melinda Gates
#48. I can see the things he doesn't say, because they're written all over him.
Melinda Salisbury
#49. Scarecrow queen. Nothing but a dupe, alone in a field, hoping to keep the crows at bay.
Melinda Salisbury
#50. Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It's what propels societies forward.
Melinda Gates
#52. Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.
Melinda Clarke
#53. From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.
Melinda Blanchard
#54. ... but for now it's too great a pleasure to stay in my own cottage, with my own books, and do exactly what I want to do.
Melinda Salisbury
#55. There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.
Melinda Gates
#56. In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.
Melinda Gates
#57. Burn all the food, and people will starve, weaken, and turn on one another. Destroy the temples and their acolytes, and the people will have nowhere to turn, no sanctuary, no charity. No hope.
Melinda Salisbury
#58. How could there be different Gods, Lief?"
"I don't believe there are any at all," he says quietly. "But I believe there are men and women whose lives are made easier by believing someone is watching over them.
Melinda Salisbury
#59. When will I be sure?"
"Sure of what?"
"Of me. Of who I am. Of what I'm here for. When will I know?"
"Never. You never will. No matter what happens. You will always have those moments of doubt and you will always make mistakes.
Melinda Salisbury
#60. Submission doesn't mean weakness; it means exploring your wants and desires and being strong enough to give control of yourself to someone else.
Melinda Barron
#61. Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
Melinda Gates
#64. I've learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I'm alone and I've never been so content.
Melinda Salisbury
#65. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. ~ Unknown
Melinda Curtis
#66. Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
Melinda Gates
#67. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.
Melinda Gates
#68. When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
Melinda Gates
#72. Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
Melinda Gates
#73. After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
Melinda Gates
#74. And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.
Melinda M. Snodgrass
#76. Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.
Melinda Gates
#77. Death was final. There was no time for a final kiss or caress, to apologize for a harsh word or argument. The world imploded with no warning.
Melinda Leigh
#78. I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
Melinda Gates
#79. Here I am, Lord. I am tired, Lord. Please stop calling me in the night. I just got some decent sleep, Lord. I'm hanging out here for a while. Your people will be fine.
Melinda Means
#80. She always told them, churches will come and go, but God will always be there. She also said church folk will run you away from God if you don't have a solid foundation.
Melinda Michelle
#81. Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.
Melinda Gates
#82. I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#83. In point of fact, most witches probably know more about liquor and how to properly drink it than many ancient and knowledgeable bartenders.
Melinda Bardon
#84. I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad.'
Melinda McGraw
#85. And perhaps it was that same stubbornness that had allowed their love to survive and last for as long as it had. After so many untold years together, it was still not enough, would never be enough although eternity stretched before them.
Melinda O'Donnell
#86. We're to be married. Does it matter if I permit it?"
"To me it does, yes," says Merek. "And I imagine you, like me, appreciate the illusion of having a choice, even when illusion is all it is.
Melinda Salisbury
#87. Fortune favors the bold." I smile weakly.
"So does death," she counters immediately. "The craven tend to live much longer than the heroic.
Melinda Salisbury
#88. As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
Melinda McGraw
#89. Kaylee giggled as he tunneled up inside her sleeve.
Out popped his head for a quick look, then he took leave.
He enjoyed scaling up, down and around her shirt.
What a sweet, funny and adorable flirt.
Melinda K. Trotter
#90. Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
Melinda Gates
#91. I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?
Melinda Gates
#92. Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
Melinda Gates
#93. I am not cunning...I'm good at seeing around obstacles is all.
Melinda Salisbury
#94. Monsters always make more trouble before they die.
Melinda Gebbie
#95. If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
Melinda Gates
#96. Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
Melinda Gates
#97. If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
Melinda Gates
#98. But I want you," he smiles at me. "Not just to make me a king. I've always wanted you. Despite it all, you are still the bride I would choose. I do choose you.
Melinda Salisbury
#99. All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
Melinda Gates
#100. If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.
Melinda Gates
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