Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people ins...
MARGARET HALSEY He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fi...
MARGARET HALSEY I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the...
MARGARET HALSEY Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, h...
MARGARET HALSEY Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
MARGARET HALSEY Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
MARGARET HALSEY In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
MARGARET HALSEY I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they...
MARGARET HALSEY Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, h...
MARGARET HALSEY The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
MARGARET HALSEY Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
MARGARET HALSEY Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity
MARGARET HALSEY Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
MARGARET HALSEY I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time,...
HALSEY I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actua...
HALSEY I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
HALSEY People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes throu...
HALSEY You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan...
HALSEY In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a li...
HALSEY You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning ...
HALSEY I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare...
HALSEY Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
HALSEY The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when som...
HALSEY Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as som...
HALSEY I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be bor...
HALSEY My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and ...
HALSEY I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 ...
HALSEY All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turn...
HALSEY You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
HALSEY I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.
HALSEY I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open abo...
HALSEY Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate ...
HALSEY So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfec...
HALSEY I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
HALSEY There are conspiracy theorists who think I was crafted in a boardroom. Because I'm so very relat...
HALSEY I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks,...
HALSEY In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was p...
HALSEY I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I...
HALSEY When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
HALSEY When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
HALSEY It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that'...
HALSEY If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that wi...
HALSEY I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
HALSEY I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guy...
HALSEY A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vib...
HALSEY I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate hi...
HALSEY You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're n...
HALSEY I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two,...
HALSEY I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there&...
HALSEY I'm a wanderess
I'm a one night stand
Don't belong to no city
Don't belong to no man<...
HALSEY I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too da...
HALSEY I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took me...
HALSEY I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone ca...
HALSEY I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If...
HALSEY I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because peopl...
HALSEY The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
HALSEY Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's g...
HALSEY I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my...
HALSEY Men should be saying I want to become a woman. The world would be a far better place if more men wan...
ALBERT HALSEY I was shocked. New management obviously felt that somebody else could do the job better. . . . Any t...
BRAD HALSEY I really liked living here in the Phoenix area, is the biggest thing. It's just a really nice place ...
BRAD HALSEY I was ready to go. I really thought we were going to play.
BRAD HALSEY I didn't get the results I wanted, but my arm feels good.
BRAD HALSEY We didn't play well and we didn't win the ballgame. That's what happens. I really don't know what el...
BRAD HALSEY Every hitter is a pretty big situation because they can all hit it out of the ballpark, but obviousl...
BRAD HALSEY Obviously, I'm happy to be with the club and I'll go out there and throw the ball the best I can, wh...
BRAD HALSEY He's impressive. It seemed like he drove balls, pulled balls and then he drove one the other way. He...
BRAD HALSEY Everything was going fine. Then I walked the leadoff batter, and that's never good. I still felt lik...
BRAD HALSEY I threw five innings and then got traded. Then I went three innings, one inning and 1 1/3 innings. I...
BRAD HALSEY There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to d...
WILLIAM HALSEY If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command...
WILLIAM HALSEY You've got to get started sometime. I'd rather have it be the first day than later on. It's differen...
BRAD HALSEY During the second quarter, we realized record margins for the company, demonstrating the leverage in...
HALSEY MINOR This is a natural evolution of our company's management structure. The move will allow me and Shelby...
HALSEY MINOR I think the bottom line is why can't we have the same rights as married people?
LINDA HALSEY I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.
LINDA HALSEY I definitely think marriage should be redefined.
LINDA HALSEY There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to d...
ADM WILLIAM HALSEY There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
WILLIAM F. HALSEY There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are fo...
WILLIAM F. HALSEY There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet." ...
WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...
MARGARET CHO I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...
MARGARET MEAD I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
MARGARET QUALLEY If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
MARGARET THATCHER Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway...
MARGARET THATCHER Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
MARGARET THATCHER There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
MARGARET THATCHER There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
MARGARET THATCHER To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it fu...
MARGARET THATCHER Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both ...
MARGARET THATCHER It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
MARGARET THATCHER What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing...
MARGARET THATCHER Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those ...
MARGARET CAVENDISH Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ...
MARGARET MEAD Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ...
MARGARET MEAD Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son...
MARGARET WALKER Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ...
MARGARET WALKER The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
MARGARET WALKER What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHER Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
MARGARET ATWOOD Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
MARGARET THATCHER Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
MARGARET ATWOOD And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh...
MARGARET SPELLINGS In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they wa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
MARGARET SPELLINGS There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing...
MARGARET SPELLINGS I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
MARGARET SPELLINGS It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
MARGARET SPELLINGS I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
MARGARET SPELLINGS We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holdi...
MARGARET SPELLINGS Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil...
MARGARET SPELLINGS We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t...
MARGARET SPELLINGS I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
MARGARET SPELLINGS I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and...
MARGARET SPELLINGS What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
MARGARET SPELLINGS Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve...
MARGARET SPELLINGS My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat...
MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular...
MARGARET SPELLINGS Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ...
MARGARET ATWOOD My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r...
MARGARET WALKER A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
MARGARET ATWOOD If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
MARGARET THATCHER The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...
MARGARET ATWOOD A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
MARGARET THATCHER I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
MARGARET THATCHER An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
MARGARET ATWOOD If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be...
MARGARET ATWOOD I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,...
MARGARET ATWOOD When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
MARGARET ATWOOD You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit...
MARGARET ATWOOD Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
MARGARET MITCHELL My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
MARGARET MITCHELL So you are a vampire."

"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo...
MARGARET STOHL Don't let the bastards grind you down.
MARGARET ATWOOD When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
MARGARET ATWOOD Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,...
MARGARET CHAN Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ...
MARGARET ATWOOD People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
MARGARET THATCHER My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
MARGARET ANDERSON It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st...
MARGARET GELLER You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev...
MARGARET WEIS I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and lea...
MARGARET THATCHER This lady is not for turning.
MARGARET THATCHER Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to Engla...
MARGARET ATWOOD They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.
MARGARET ATWOOD Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all...
MARGARET ATWOOD No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
MARGARET ATWOOD The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ...
MARGARET ATWOOD I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
MARGARET THATCHER I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and fla...
MARGARET ANDERSON I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attrac...
MARGARET STOHL There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hot...
MARGARET STOHL The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
MARGARET THATCHER If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa...
MARGARET THATCHER Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
MARGARET LINDSEY Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. ...
MARGARET THATCHER I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
MARGARET THATCHER Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in yo...
MARGARET THATCHER Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...
MARGARET ATWOOD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
MARGARET MEAD If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
MARGARET MITCHELL Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER