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I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
— Madeleine Albright
I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.
— Madeleine Peyroux
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Do you know how lucky you are?" She smiled rather wryly. "Not most of the time.
— Madeleine L'Engle
She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
If your name isn't known, then it's a very lonely feeling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from.
— Madeleine Roux
Everyone in the room was so spectral-looking that Madeleine's natural healthiness seemed suspect, like a vote for Reagan.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married [ ... ]. The iron is less dangerous.
— Madeleine Urban
Personally, I'm not a whiner. I don't believe in complaining about something if you don't have a realistic plan for how to fix it.
— Madeleine George
A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
— Madeleine Albright
Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.
— Madeleine Stowe
I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder ... Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.
— Madeleine Albright
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If he thought about it, he'd cut and run - as far and as fast as he possibly could.
— Madeleine Urban
Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.
— Madeleine Albright
Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!
— Madeleine L'Engle
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
— Madeleine L'Engle
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
— Madeleine L'Engle
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
— Madeleine Albright
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Believing takes practice.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You can't do over what's already been done, but you sure can undo it. Not easy, but you can undo it.
— Madeleine Roux
I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.
— Madeleine Albright
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
— Madeleine Albright
'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't knowany of us. — Madeleine L'Engle
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves ...
— Madeleine L'Engle
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
— Madeleine Albright
But I'm not patient!" cried Meg passionately. "I've never been patient!
— Madeleine L'Engle
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Any reason why we couldn't just ditch the condoms from now on?" Surprise
— Madeleine Urban
I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.
— Madeleine Albright
There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
— Madeleine Albright
She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.
— Madeleine Albright
Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
— Madeleine Albright
I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
— Madeleine Peyroux
Prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.
— Madeleine Albright
When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
— Madeleine Albright
Julian," he whispered pleadingly. "Please don't leave me.
— Madeleine Urban
Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You're just a big softy," he taunted. "The last person said that to me got Viagra in his coffee next morning," Ty warned seriously.
— Madeleine Urban
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
— Madeleine Albright
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.
— Madeleine Albright
That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.
— Madeleine L'Engle
He loved Ty Grady with all there was to give of his heart, and in the end, all it had taken was one wink for Zane to finally come to terms with it. As
— Madeleine Urban
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
— Madeleine Albright
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
— Madeleine L'Engle
For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
— Madeleine Albright
The refusal to love is the only unbearable thing.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
— Madeleine Peyroux
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe we have to sin, to know ourselves human, faulty and flawed, before there is any possibility of greatness." - Nik
— Madeleine L'Engle
When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.
— Madeleine Albright
Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.
— Helen Fielding
There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...