Muriel Lester Quotes

#1. What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?

Isaac Marion

#2. I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Richard Gere

#3. It is a fact, however, that there is no rest for the wicked.

Muriel Lester

#4. It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

Muriel Lester

#5. We went to a remote Panda Base which was insane because inside there were several cribs which held about twenty baby pandas. They were all different sizes and they were all lying there in a long row. It was so cute, I could hardly stand it. I wanted to take them all home with me.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#6. If you don't want my answer, don't ask me the question.

Abby

#7. The first casualty in every war is truth.

Muriel Lester

#8. That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.

J.R. Ward

#9. Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.

Muriel Lester

#10. Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

Muriel Lester

#11. How ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

Muriel Lester

#12. I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesn't? If you don't have a few scars, you haven't really lived.

Lexi Blake

#13. How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

Muriel Lester

#14. A victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

Muriel Lester

#15. Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

Muriel Lester

#16. We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

Barack Obama

#17. Once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.

Muriel Lester

#18. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston S. Churchill