Top 100 Mueller Quotes
#2. I loved Cookie [Mueller]. She was a much better writer than actress. She shouldn't have stuck with me in the beginning; she should have immediately become a writer. She would have had more of a chance.
John Waters
#3. At twenty-three, Hollman was young, single, and willing to give up any semblance of having a life in favor of working at SpaceX nonstop, and he became Mueller's second in command.
Ashlee Vance
#4. Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement. (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.)
Erich Fromm
#5. The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, 'You're the first to do this. You're the first to do that.' Don't dwell on race all the time.
Monte Irvin
#6. Mueller and Stewart estimate that expenditures on domestic homeland security (i.e., not counting the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan) have increased by more than $1 trillion since 9/11,
Glenn Greenwald
#7. Happiness in God comes from seeing God revealed to us in the face of Jesus Christ through the Scriptures. Mueller
John Piper
#8. Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.
Robert Wilson
#9. For I will yet praise him" (Ps. 43:5). More prayer, more exercising of our faith, and more patient waiting leads to blessings - abundant blessings. I have found it to be true many hundreds of times, and therefore I continually say to myself, "Put your hope in God." George Mueller
Lettie B. Cowman
#10. Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor." That was Cookie Mueller on the East Village, 1985. The
Sari Botton
#11. And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.
Robert Mueller
#12. Someone was always leaving
and never coming back.
The wooden houses wait like old wives
along this road; they are everywhere,
abandoned, leaning, turning gray.
Lisel Mueller
#13. Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
Lisel Mueller
#14. At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.
Lisel Mueller
#15. In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.
Robert Mueller
#16. My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook ... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.
Jessie Mueller
#17. We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.
Robert Mueller
#19. We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.
Walt Mueller
#20. I've learned that selflessness is a practice, not a place; a journey much more than a destination
Kayla Mueller
#21. So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.
Robert Mueller
#22. I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.
Robert Mueller
#23. I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.
Jessie Mueller
#24. I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. I will always seek God. Some people find God in church. Some people find God in nature. Some people find God in love; I find God in suffering. I've known for some time what my life's work is, using my hands as tools to relieve suffering.
Kayla Mueller
#25. The reason so many people fail to make lasting changes is that they don't commit to one path long enough to see results.
Mary Kay Mueller
#26. Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.
Lisel Mueller
#27. When I am asked
how I began writing poems,
I talk about the indifference of nature.
Lisel Mueller
#28. My mother says we're supposed to make mistakes. That's the way we learn. Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.
Karen Mueller Coombs
#29. And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
Robert Mueller
#30. But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.
Robert Mueller
#31. My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.
Jessie Mueller
#32. 'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.
Jessie Mueller
#33. Do what you think best with it, George, and may God help us both.
Mary Mueller
#34. Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.
Ferdinand Von Mueller
#35. Whatever was bound to happen
in my story did not happen.
But I know there are rules that cannot be broken.
Perhaps a name was changed.
A small mistake. Perhaps
a woman I do not know
is facing the day with the heavy heart
that, by all rights, should have been mine.
Lisel Mueller
#36. I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.
Robert Mueller
#37. Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.
Jessie Mueller
#38. My husband says spring will be early.
He says this every year,
And every year I disagree.
He needs me, the dark side of the planetary equation.
Together we make the equinox.
Lisel Mueller
#39. There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again,
Robert Mueller
#40. The American system of education, in its incipiency, and for a long while, was one founded on Bible-teaching and religious exercises. The present system is un-American, anti-American.
Michael Mueller
#41. By the time I arrive at evening, / they have just settled down to rest; / already invisible, they are turning / into the dreamwork of the trees ... .
Lisel Mueller
#42. I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.
Lisel Mueller
#44. Now in the thriving season of love
when the bud relents into flower,
your love turned absence has turned once more,
and if my comforts fall soft as rain
on her flutters, it is because
love grows by what it remembers of love
Lisel Mueller
#45. I remember Mom always telling me that all in all in the end the only one you really have is God.
Kayla Mueller
#46. Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy."
"That's for sure," agreed Rocky.
"But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.
Karen Mueller Coombs
#47. People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.
Robert Mueller
#48. All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.
Robert Mueller
#49. The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.
Kayla Mueller
#50. Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded.
Ferdinand Von Mueller
#51. You shall not twist my bones into a star's shape, nor plant my hair as roots for the dreams of the living; and if you open my heart and run your poet's fingers over its walls and cushions you will find it is like yours, dark.
Lisel Mueller
#52. I'm off to find my world, my dreams,
Carve my niche, sew my seams,
Remember, as I sail my streams-
I'll love you all the way.
Brooke Mueller
#53. So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.
Robert Mueller
#54. We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.
Robert Mueller
#55. I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.
Robert Mueller
#56. Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.
Walt Mueller
#57. We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.
Robert Mueller
#58. The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.
Robert Mueller
#59. How I would paint happiness
Something hidden, a windfall,
A meteor shower. No-
A flowering tree releasing
all its blossoms at once,
and the one standing beneath it
unexpectedly robed in bloom ...
Lisel Mueller
#60. If I can't read, if I can't make a simple Indian pudding, then I don't see the point in living much more, really. Because aside from a good book, and perhaps, a fresh morning in a dew-covered garden, few things in life give me as much pleasure as magic of making a truly spectacular dessert.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#61. A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
Kayla Mueller
#62. On the contrary, what is hidden from the learned and clever is often revealed to the merest children.
John D. Mueller
#63. Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.
Robert Mueller
#64. It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.
Robert Mueller
#65. And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.
Robert Mueller
#66. Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.
Jessie Mueller
#67. I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.
Jessie Mueller
#68. I search the language for a word
to tell you how red is red.
Lisel Mueller
#69. MOSFETs can be constructed as either NMOS or PMOS types, based on the arrangement of doped silicon used. Silicon doped with boron is called P-type (positive) because it lacks electrons, whereas silicon doped with phosphorus is called N-type (negative) because it has an excess of free electrons.
Scott Mueller
#70. In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.
Robert Mueller
#71. The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do.
Kayla Mueller
#72. In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
Robert Mueller
#73. This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless,
our chances of being alive together
statistically nonexistent;
Lisel Mueller
#74. In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat,
Robert Mueller
#75. Only you know what you are doing - or not doing - to become the best you can be.
Jan Marie Mueller
#76. As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.
Robert Mueller
#77. They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.
Robert Mueller
#78. I'm proud of you, son," he said. "I guess it has finally sunk in that it's important to stand up for yourself in this world."
Rocky shook his head. "It's more important to stand up for someone who can't stand up for herself," he had answered.
Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.
Karen Mueller Coombs
#79. I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.
Jessie Mueller
#80. Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.
Robert Mueller
#81. I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.
Jessie Mueller
#82. How swiftly the strained honey
of afternoon light
flows into darkness
and the closed bud shrugs off
its special mystery
in order to break into blossom:
as if what exists, exists
so that it can be lost
and become precious
Lisel Mueller
#83. Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.
Karen Mueller Coombs
#84. On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.
Ferdinand Von Mueller
#85. The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.
Walt Mueller
#86. I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
Robert Mueller
#87. Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
Lisel Mueller
#88. In planning an attack, persons have various roles.
Robert Mueller
#89. I will not return to a universe
of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long lost children of one great continent
Lisel Mueller
#90. I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.
Kayla Mueller
#91. What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.
Robert Mueller
#92. This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering,
Kayla Mueller
#93. It's important to stop and realize what we have, why we have it and how privileged we are. And from that place, start caring and get a lot done.
Kayla Mueller
#94. If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.
Robert Mueller
#96. The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.
Robert Mueller
#97. Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
Lisel Mueller
#98. The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.
Jessie Mueller
#99. I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
Robert Mueller
#100. When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
Lisel Mueller
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