Top 100 Melinda's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
Melinda McGraw
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad.'
Melinda McGraw
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.
Kavita Ramdas
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
Melinda Gates
#23. Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
Melinda Gates
#25. 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
#27. We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us.
Melinda West Seifert
#28. Jill showed friend Kay the cute white mice.
They liked to run races for cheese.
Mice were lots of fun to play with.
Jill said, "Take Poopsie, the male one, please!
Melinda K. Trotter
#29. My favorite judge is Simon! He's so real with ya - Even when I don't like
Melinda Doolittle
#30. We always protect our heads, our faces,' he commented as he followed a half-step behind and to her left. It's pure instinct; to shield the eyes. The irony is that the blind have no eyes to protect, and suffer most of their injuries on their legs. But instinct can be blind, too.
Melinda Cross
#31. Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It's who we become that gives the story body, form and meaning.
Melinda West Seifert
#32. That weekend my people brought home
a big eared gray scrawny kit.
He was so loud and annoying
that I did not like him one bit.
Melinda K. Trotter
#33. That's the trouble with knowing things: you can't un-know them. Once you let yourself look at them, or say them aloud, they become real.
Melinda Salisbury
#34. When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.
Melinda McGraw
#35. It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister - a person with hopes and dreams.
Melinda Gates
#36. It's drive and determination, because that creates talent if you're determined enough and you love something enough. The ability to do it seems to come with that, it doesn't come on its own. It's the determination to succeed that creates talent.
Melinda Bilyeu
#37. She's like one of those Siamese cats. You know - totally self-interested, way too beautiful, way too aware of the fact, and totally willing to use it to get what she wants.
Melinda Metz
#38. Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
Melinda Gates
#39. In the long run, people will not remember you for your appearance but for your kind attitude towards others. Remember, being beautiful will make you look charming temporarily but it's pure soul that has the ability to win others' hearts forever.
Melinda Smart
#41. Enough. I don't have time for this; self-pity's a luxury that I can't afford.
Like bread. Or pride.
Enough, Errin. There's work to do. Get up.
Melinda Salisbury
#42. Toilet paper unrolled and slithered
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy.
Melinda K. Trotter
#43. But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
Melinda Gates
#44. Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
Melinda Gates
#45. I allow myself one day to indulge in self-pity and thereafter I
continue to be grateful for what life has given me, really!
That's all part of living.
Melinda George
#46. Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
Melinda Gates
#48. Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.
Melinda Gates
#49. 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
#50. She turned her face to the glass window and smiled, waving goodbye to Robert,
wondering if he were looking. That's the trouble with being blind, she thought. You never know if anyone waves back.
Melinda Cross
#51. So here's the question," Melinda led in. "Who's Tall, Dark and Smoldering?
Julie James
#52. 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
#53. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. That's the problem with fairy tales, they change with the telling.
Melinda Salisbury
#61. 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
#62. We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
Melinda Gates
#63. Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
Melinda Gates
#64. I do believe that one way to have a destiny is to choose one.
Melinda McGraw
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
Melinda Gates
#71. I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.
Melinda Clarke
#72. Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
Melinda Gates
#73. As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
Melinda Gates
#74. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.
Melinda Gates
#79. Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
Melinda Gates
#80. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. ~ Unknown
Melinda Curtis
#81. 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
#82. Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.
Neil Diamond
#85. Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
Melinda Gates
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
Melinda Gates
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. ... 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
#93. From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.
Melinda Blanchard
#94. Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.
Melinda Clarke
#96. 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
#97. Scarecrow queen. Nothing but a dupe, alone in a field, hoping to keep the crows at bay.
Melinda Salisbury
#98. She Can Run (She Can Series, Book 1) (Leigh, Melinda) - Your Highlight on page 232 | Location 2961-2962 | Added on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:41:44 PM something, but that never happened." "Baker was probably too concerned about his image to go public with the fact that ==========
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#99. I can see the things he doesn't say, because they're written all over him.
Melinda Salisbury
#100. 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
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