Vester Quotes

#1. But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

Linda Vester

#2. The audacity of youth reckons upon what it fancies an unlimited time at its disposal; but a millionaire has unlimited means in his hand - which is better. One's time on earth is an uncertain quantity, but about the long reach of millions there is no doubt.

Joseph Conrad

#3. If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Donald Hall

#4. I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

Linda Vester

#5. We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#6. Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.

Linda Vester

#7. In my rational mind, I know ... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

Linda Vester

#8. When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Carlos Castaneda

#9. My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

Didi Conn

#10. As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.

Michelle Fairley

#11. My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Helmut Newton

#12. I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

Stephen King

#13. What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

Linda Vester

#14. I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

Linda Vester

#15. The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

Linda Vester

#16. Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

Linda Vester

#17. As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Linda Vester

#18. But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

Linda Vester

#19. I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

Hazel Scott

#20. Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination
devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues
which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

Robert A. Heinlein

#21. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

Aldous Huxley

#22. In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.

Jodi Picoult

#23. We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

Jim Leyland

#24. Positive thought + positive action = positive results.

Gloria Vester

#25. Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

Dennis Miller

#26. And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

Linda Vester

#27. So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

Linda Vester