Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.


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MADELEINE ROUX
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
As soon as he was out of sight, Gui pulled the macaron mixture towards him, and took a deep breath. ...
LAURA MADELEINE
In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
MADELEINE L’ENGLE
I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in t...
MADELEINE L’ENGLE
While the summit was hopeful, not all the issues have been resolved,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Saddam Hussein is a congenital liar, and he cheats and he steals and he cannot be allowed to defy th...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
We want to avoid anything that looks like there is a partition,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
And if they do, I hope heaven is a road trip. I hope it’s
you and me and Renny and Ted with n...
MADELEINE ROUX
Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intol...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this und...
MADELEINE BOURDOUXHE
We're not into endless extensions,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
I bring you very warm personal greetings from President Clinton, and he is very much looking forward...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
I actually pretended to be a journalist, ... John's publicist was very nice, but he did say, 'John i...
MADELEINE STOWE
He's so nice,
MADELEINE STOWE
He tended to the ovens, but was allowed to help the other chefs for a few hours, warming butter and ...
LAURA MADELEINE
I think it would be a genuine mistake if the focus today was on confrontation without thinking of th...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as wri...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry pe...
MADELEINE STOWE
I made it very clear that there were eight weeks (before the summit and) there had to be a speeding ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
As I have said, as President Clinton has said, he is prepared to have such a summit, but we have to ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I contin...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Her hands were broad and strong; the true pianist's sledgehammer hands, they had been called. They s...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
He was jovial and forthcoming, and interested and different from what we had all been led to believe...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
I am not prepared to go shuttling back and forth, ... I think that in contrast to other periods of A...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
The things you experience," she continued, "are written on your cells as memories and patterns, whic...
MADELEINE THIEN
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Weary Blues.
MADELEINE PEYROUX
It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
MADELEINE PEYROUX
When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I foun...
MADELEINE PEYROUX
It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial sup...
MADELEINE PEYROUX
Things changed so quickly. The Atlantic jazz department just went from under us.
MADELEINE PEYROUX
The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
If the issues are resolved, ... President Clinton is prepared to invite the parties to launch accele...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
The Red Cross is made up of volunteers. We have a meager staff, but the volunteers who pitch in when...
MADELEINE GASDIK
determined to do the right thing, but in a pragmatic way. We defended human rights.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, &...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
cease long-range missile development, production and its export program.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
We have insisted that (North Korea) cease its long-range missile development, production and export ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
a very strong endorsement... of the basic objectives established (by the 19-nation NATO alliance) .....
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT