Top 100 Quotes About Nancy
#1. I'm looking for the binding energy of a look
a crop of reflections to be reaped
in a winter of thorn
when icebergs of illusion will melt
to be served at high tea
and the spaces between the poles pinned down
Nancy Peters
#2. Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.
Nancy Werlin
#4. The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want ... I want ... ,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it.
Nancy Farmer
#5. There's not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah... There are ways to hold the thing up in the light and see a hundred facets, and knowing you, you've found a hundred and one.
Nancy Horan
#6. Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
Nancy Pelosi
#7. I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.
Rush Limbaugh
#8. If movies and music are vehicles for emotionally "hooking" people into Hollywood worldviews, then the best countermeasure is to create more compelling, more beautiful forms of art that express a biblical worldview.
Nancy Pearcey
#9. Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
Nancy Reagan
#10. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
Nancy Lancaster
#11. The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
Nancy Kress
#12. The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.
Nancy Reagan
#13. I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.
Gloria Steinem
#14. She got up from the bed, knelt beside the bed, and put her forehead down on the covers. She was not practiced at prayer anymore. The only word that came to mind was "please".
Nancy Horan
#15. A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
Nancy Reagan
#16. CHAPTER XV* SHEWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE
Charles Dickens
#17. My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.
Nancy Kassebaum
#18. If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.
Nancy Pickard
#19. The CEO of Monsanto had been disemboweled alive.
Nancy Kress
#20. Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
Nancy Gibbs
#21. The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.
Nancy Hale
#22. It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.
Nancy Pickard
#23. Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is a coming-of-age novel about Ruth Ann (Bone) Boatwright and a difficult childhood made even harder by her violent and predatory stepfather.
Nancy Pearl
#24. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
Nancy Thayer
#25. As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
Nancy Kress
#26. Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.
Nancy Pickard
#27. I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.
Nancy Pelosi
#28. Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.
Nancy E. Turner
#30. CHAPTER XVI RELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY
Charles Dickens
#32. I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head over it. A cabbage has a purpose when someone needs to make soup.
Nancy Farmer
#33. To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
Nancy Grace
#34. The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
Nancy Etchemendy
#35. It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
Nancy Spain
#36. The hour on Sunday can be a time of wonder, a time of transformation, maybe even a time of awe.
Nancy Beach
#37. liberals have no compelling truth, no 'good news,' to proclaim.
Nancy Pearcey
#38. When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
Nancy Gibbs
#39. Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
Nancy Kress
#40. Men are linear creatures, led by their lusts. You only have to give them an excuse to act on what they already want to do.
Nancy Gideon
#41. Nancy Herman, my new gym partner and locker neighbor, puts her hand on my shoulder and whispers, Don't worry April. I have foot fungus too.
Amy Holder
#42. Assassinated just four days before. It was like
Nancy Gibbs
#43. All we are is who we surround ourselves with and let into our hearts.
Nancy S. Thompson
#44. Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.
Nancy Farmer
#45. Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.
Nancy Kline
#46. The reason we are justified in trusting our minds is that God designed them to "fit" the world he created.
Nancy Pearcey
#47. I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
Nancy Pelosi
#48. I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
Nancy Reagan
#49. People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.
Nancy Farmer
#50. She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.
Nancy Farmer
#51. Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.
Nancy Snow
#52. It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
Nancy Sinatra
#53. In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.
Nancy Lancaster
#54. I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
Nancy Sinatra
#55. For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
Nancy Pelosi
#56. Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
Nancy Kerrigan
#57. There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...
Nancy Mitford
#58. {In the shadows where the ancestors sleep, the bird's song is young, but all else is old. Stillness surrounds me and I breathe softly expecting the unexpected.} from book in progress
Nancy B. Brewer
#59. Live for One day instead to die every day.
Work is worship
Do or die.
Nancy Patchen
#60. Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
Nancy Mitford
#61. Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
Nancy Gibbs
#62. A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
Nancy Gibbs
#63. Reductionism is like a kid who argues that whatever does not fit into his toy box is not a toy.
Nancy Pearcey
#64. A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
Nancy Gibbs
#65. A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
Nancy Lopez
#66. It was never about winning medals or being famous.
Nancy Kerrigan
#67. Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.
Nancy Bird Walton
#68. I often wonder what supernatural acts God would perform in our world-things He is ready, willing, eager, and able to do-if we would just approach Him and make our requests known.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#69. I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra
#70. Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#71. The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
W.S. Gilbert
#72. Indeed, life is full of tests. You don't know what they are, so you must treat everything in life with the same care you would bring to a test on which your future rests. I realize that the most important test of all, in my quest, and in every bird's quest, is the test to be the master of fate.
Nancy Yi Fan
#73. People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.
Nancy Reagan
#74. I love to post behind-the-scenes photos of what is really going on. My twitter friends really seem to like that and the great thing is I can deliver them information right away.
Nancy O'Dell
#75. I used to complain to myself that life was so boring, that there was too much laundry to do, too many noses to wipe. Now there are not enough noses to wipe.
Nancy E. Turner
#76. My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Nancy Mitford
#77. Did that happen?" asked Shadow. "Did what happen, shit-for-brains?" asked Mr. Nancy. "The hall. The fire. Tiger balls. Riding the Carousel.
Neil Gaiman
#78. When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
Nancy O'Dell
#79. Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.
Nancy Gibbs
#80. Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end.
Nancy B. Brewer
#81. America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
Nancy Pearcey
#82. She was obviously devastated by her loss. But not so devastated that she did not find the energy to utterly vanquish Diane.
Nancy Goldstone
#83. Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see
Nancy Holder
#84. Shade for a man
And shelter for animals,
Planted in your name,
May you be the same for those around you,
Every year the same.
Nancy J Cavanaugh
#85. Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy Sinatra
#86. Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
Nancy Pearcey
#87. Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.
James Darren
#88. Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
Nancy Gibbs
#89. When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
Nancy Astor
#91. Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
Nancy Pelosi
#92. Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!
Nancy Farmer
#93. Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.
Nancy Mitford
#94. Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.
Nancy Pelosi
#95. Nancy fell in love with Viola at first sight of her. A coup de foudre, she said, more intense and overwhelming than any form of romantic love. Mother and daughter were each a world to the other, complete and unassailable.
Kate Atkinson
#96. Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
Nancy Lublin
#97. Matt had to swallow hard to keep tears from forming. Fidelito had called him brother!
Nancy Farmer
#98. We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.
Nancy Grossman
#99. Today's breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare.
Nancy B. Brewer
#100. As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
Nancy Gibbs
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