I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.


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LOUISE BORDEN
Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parki...
LOUISE PENNY
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
LOUISE BROOKS
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
LOUISE ERDRICH
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
LOUISE ERDRICH
No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the world a portion of its lost heart.
LOUISE BOGAN
It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume.
LOUISE ARBOUR
until the accused are in custody.
LOUISE ARBOUR
Two phenomena, in my view, are particularly disturbing: One is the prevalence of the use of torture ...
LOUISE ARBOUR
I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, a...
LOUISE ARBOUR
The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible.
LOUISE ARBOUR
Let us be clear, the proposal before the General Assembly is the fruit of compromise. It cannot be a...
LOUISE ARBOUR
We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immedia...
LOUISE ARBOUR
China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to mat...
LOUISE ARBOUR
China's rapid economic g rowth has resulted in tremendous progress in reducing poverty and improving...
LOUISE ARBOUR
There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations fo...
LOUISE ARBOUR
If you can't return a favor, pass it on
LOUISE BROWN
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on...
LOUISE NEVELSON
Some people need a slap, in the face, with a shovel!
LOUISE TRENT
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
LOUISE BROWN
My father could out-weather anybody. Like people anywhere, there were times when it was the only top...
LOUISE ERDRICH
I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.
LOUISE POST
…believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn’t.
LOUISE PENNY
Living things don't all require
light in the same degree. Some of us
make our own light: a...
LOUISE GLüCK
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving gr...
LOUISE ERDRICH
Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at th...
LOUISE ERDRICH
And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't...
LOUISE RENNISON
Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront.
LOUISE ERDRICH
Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep m...
LOUISE FITZHUGH
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockef...
LOUISE NEVELSON
What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shoul...
LOUISE NEVELSON
New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast sc...
LOUISE NURDING
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
LOUISE ERDRICH
The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked mor...
LOUISE ERDRICH
Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced hers...
LOUISE PENNY
Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved!
Receive the laurel, given, though late, o...
LOUISE BOGAN
I think the fact they they're just practically denuding the northeast preys on a lot of minds and we...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER
Exxon-Mobil alone, one oil company, brought in more than $7.6 billion dollars in profits over the la...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER
The criminal indictment of Tom DeLay is the first chink in the armor of corruption that has so cloud...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER
This bill would create the first federal law that would recognize a fertilized egg as a victim of a ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER
We need bipartisan support. We believe we can get it and we will get it.
LOUISE SLAUGHTER
The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
LOUISE HART
From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. We...
LOUISE NEVELSON
True strength is delicate
LOUISE NEVELSON
The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslav...
LOUISE NEVELSON
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
LOUISE NEVELSON
There's no one that can comprehend what it means to have a place like this until you need it. This t...
LOUISE CUMMINGS