Carla Quotes

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it. ~ Carla H. Krueger

The Alchemist' is the modern bible. ~ Carla Golian

'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie. ~ Carla Gugino

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?' ~ Carla Gallo

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes." ~ Carla Gugino

A country is mostly the people in it," Maud said. "I don't love England. My parents died a long time ago, and my brother has disowned me. I love Germany. For me, Germany is my wonderful husband, Walter; my misguided son, Erik; my alarmingly capable daughter, Carla; our maid, Ada, and her disabled son; my friend Monika and her family; my journalistic colleagues . . . I'm staying, to fight the Nazis. ~ Ken Follett

She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to Carla. The suffering women, however, had recognized it immediately: condemnation. ~ Erik Valeur

I don't think it is ever too late to seek forgiveness and rewrite your future. ~ Carla Reighard

I always feel anxious if anyone's close to uncovering my secrets. ~ Carla H. Krueger

He leaned forward slightly in a teasing manner, as if trying to focus on Carla. He took a step forward and smiled. ~ Olivia Stanton

Denying women access to the mosque, like denying them other rights, was simply clinging to customs, not faith, said Akram. In the case of education, he'd gone further: preventing women from pursuing knowledge, he said, was like the pre-Islamic custom of burying girls alive. ~ Carla Power

The city gate opened when she and Harper reached the causeway. Her mind barely registered the new walls and the number of soldiers lining the ramparts who were cheering them. Oh, don't, she wanted to tell them. We have lost so much. ~ Carla Kelly

I knew she wouldn't remember me," Della said as she and Jordan once again sat at the table. "She had her head so far up her ass in high school, the only thing she could recognize was her own colon. ~ Carla Cassidy

Someone else said to me, "I wish I could just lay around in the bed and read." You know, it's okay to have the thought--just don't say it out loud. If your life is so miserable that you're envious of someone who's just been diagnosed with a debilitating illness, maybe it's time to make a few life adjustments. ~ Carla Ulbrich

It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths. ~ Carla VanKoughnett

I wish I could say that Carla Bruni's Guess campaign at age 16 led to her current role as First Lady of France, but that might be a stretch. ~ Paul Marciano

Physical injury carries with it the fallout of mental injury, the damage never being equal to the traumatic event. E does not equal MC2 in this particular case. The logic of emotion carries no logic and hurt is an emotional value. I'm unsure what that value equals. ~ Carla R. Herrera

I'll be your friend until you find a better one. ~ Carla H. Krueger

But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The poem had been written by an adult, not some teen with an unfinished brain. Whoever wrote the line bootlicker, sycophant, toady intended damage, understood how Carla would feel, how anybody would feel, being called such names. The line was playful, offhand, the poem itself a smug, imperious cat stretch. The writer was having fun. Amy had been comfortable in the same room with someone whose idea of fun this was. ~ Jincy Willett

..this is your dream. Every moment, all of it. Even when you're tired or afraid. You're braver than you realize, and you will do this, and do it well." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ~ Carla Olson Gade

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together. ~ Carla Gugino

Sorry," I said to the Duke.
"Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me."
I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back.
"Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you. ~ John Green

Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Mother said: "Isn't it better for the press to be able to criticize everyone equally?" "A wonderful idea," he said. "But you socialists live in a dream world. We practical men know that Germany cannot live on ideas. People must have bread and shoes and coal." "I quite agree," Mother said. "I could use more coal myself. But I want Carla and Erik to grow up as citizens of a free country." "You overrate freedom. It doesn't make people happy. They prefer leadership. I want Werner and Frieda and poor Axel to grow up in a country that is proud, and disciplined, and united." "And in order to be united, we need young thugs in brown shirts to beat up elderly Jewish shopkeepers? ~ Ken Follett

Anybody who forces people to change their beliefs, they are not a teacher. Learning should come from understanding properly, not from being forced. ~ Carla Power

Carla had realised there wasn't just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them. ~ Claire Chilton

Oh, dear, she thought, this is probably more democracy than an Englishman can stand. ~ Carla Kelly

Unrequited love sucks. It should be against the law."
She brightened.
"If it was, then I could have Rick arrest me. I'd love to be handcuffed to him. ~ Carla Cassidy

showing Carla and Erik with Father. It had been taken a couple of years ago on a sunny day at the beach ~ Ken Follett

What's the point of these demagogic campaigns if these hungry kids are still here on the road? All little ones deserve protection, food, love and peace. ~ Carla Perez

I can't say I based [Carla] on anybody I knew. She was so foulmouthed and mean, just said what was on her mind. So I guess Carla is somebody I always wished I could be at the right moment, the one who always has the perfect comeback. ~ Shelley Long

Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside. ~ Carla H. Krueger

People who repeatedly find career success learn to broaden their perspective and understand that there are always several roads to getting where you want to go. ~ Carla Harris

You can't be what I call selectively motivated, where you can only work hard and smart when things are going well. ~ Carla Harris

Carla had never before realized how much she had been protected by politicians, newspapermen, and lawyers. Without them, she saw now, the government could do anything it liked, even kill people. ~ Ken Follett

What is meant by woman's equality is usually her right to share in the exercise of power within society, once it is accepted that she is possessed of the same abilities as man. But in these years women's real experience has brought about a new awareness, setting into motion a process of global devaluation of the male world. We have come to see that at the level of power there is no need for abilities but only for a particularly effective form of alienation. Existing as a woman does not imply participation in male power, but calls into question the very concept of power. It is in order to avoid this attack that we are now granted inclusion in the form of equality. ~ Carla Lonzi

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope. ~ Carla H. Krueger

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. ~ Carla Bley

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Just as trying to impose sharia law wouldn't make people into good Muslims, imposing the hijab wouldn't automatically confer modesty. Without fear of God and a true submission to Him, these outward displays of Islamic identities were just about showing off an identity, he explained, not about faith. "There could be people who follow sharia law, but they're not believers," he said. "Or they could be someone who doesn't cover, but they are believers," he said.

Covering your head required true commitment before it truly worked. "Clothes don't make your pious," he told his students. "If you're pious, the covering can protect you. But trying to force women into the house, or into the hijab, it's not going to make them pious. ~ Carla Power

The love of your life is the person who makes you forget what all your standards and preconceived notions about love and romance even were. ~ Carla Neggers

Getting involved with a victim was kind of like trying to find love on a reality show ... rarely successful. ~ Carla Cassidy

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere. ~ Carla H. Krueger

To cut a long story short, I'm a writer. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Everyone had believed for capitalism and democracy to grow, the corporation had to grow; though that was wrong, the idea stuck. Democracy was the meme, but corporate growth was an idea imbedded into that meme. Hard to shake one from the other. ~ Carla R. Herrera

But a niqab was different. It was not a "choice" in the manner of the consumer economy. A visual obliteration of the self, a plain black niqab was a refusal to engage in everyday modes of self-expression. The woman who wore it chose to wear it because it connected her to something bigger than the self. It could be God. It could be a Muslim identity. But it wasn't a simple case of a teenage fashion choice, that was certain. ~ Carla Power

Your view of the world is just as skewed as someone who has never seen combat... We all state our convictions from within our convictions. ~ Carla Neggers

Oh, well, she decided as her eyes began to close, it is better to love foolishly than to hate bitterly. I hope I am wiser than I was and more kind. ~ Carla Kelly

I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters. ~ Carla H. Krueger

The Immovable Object can also be construed as an idea whose
time has come. It's an idea of proportions that the human mind can
only grasp a small portion. Like the idea of freedom during the days
of revolution - only a handful understand what it means for the long
term, but it's the idea that cause people to take up arms, revolt
against the ruling class and fight for what they perceive to be
freedom. ~ Carla R. Herrera

I was a really, really serious kid. And a really kind of controlling kid. Like I had things that, now, people would say are like - there's a name for many disorders as we know - but I would say, "If I pick this rubber band, then this will happen." It was that kind of want to control things, which I think all kids have to some extent. ~ Carla Gugino

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level. ~ Carla Gugino

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical. ~ Carla Bruni

Where's your dog?' I ask quickly. 'Dawn said you had a dog. Let's take the dog out.'
'There ain't no dog,' replies Janis. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise. ~ Carla H. Krueger

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate. ~ Carla Gugino

So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I'm not really a femme fatale. ~ Carla Bruni

Carla lives for cat videos. She thinks they're the only thing the Internet is good for. ~ Nicola Yoon

My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event. ~ Carla Hall

One man's fight is another man's freedom. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Prayer is better than pills. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know. ~ Carla Bruni

When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels. ~ Carla Bruni

It's hard to stop people comparing their world with the world they imagine you to have. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Youngsters deserve no opinions. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I think the scariest thing to me is to think that somebody would only associate me with one character and that that's all that I would get to play. ~ Carla Gugino

One of the laws of the professional jungle is that every dog has their day. Everyone gets a shot at the top and at some point someone else gets their turn. ~ Carla Harris

It would never occur to me to judge anyone. ~ Carla Bruni

I learned that when you can turn a presentation into a conversation, you have won the battle of converting a client; and second, I learned that the real Carla was my best competitive weapon and my key personal advantage. ~ Carla Harris

Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am. ~ Carla Gugino

I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day. ~ Carla Gugino

Modern Muslims often simply cling to the external signs of their faith: "People are busy worrying about their beards, or their headscarves," he observed. "So the faith becomes like their identity. It happens like this in every culture, every faith. The outer aspects to become more important, while the soul inside is forgotten." He paused, shook his head, and gazed mournfully out a the crowd. "At the end of the day, people are carrying around a dead body, with no soul."

"Why do Muslims have so much suffering, all over the world?" he demanded. "We are carrying the body of Islam! We don't have submission. We have got the law, but without the hikma - the wisdom - behind it. Religion hasn't come to give people an identity! Its purpose is not so you can say, 'We belong to this group.' But at this moment ninety-nine percent of Muslims treat religion as identity! But God does not like identity. He does not want people to be proud of belonging. He wants faith, and he wants action. ~ Carla Power

She would think about it tomorrow, but tomorrow never came when the memory had been that painful. ~ Carla Reighard

Encouragement is more constructive than criticism. ~ CARLA EVANS

So, I'm a Leo," she began. "I like long walks on the beach, chick flicks, and I have a five-year plan." She saw Carla and Ruby share a confused look. "Do you have a five-year plan, Nathan? I can't date a guy without a five-year plan."
"Are you high?" he asked. ~ Elena Kincaid

But just as misery cannot crawl across an endless path, so does the trail of happiness occasionally reach a sharp end." - The Last Gift ~ Carla Acheson

Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David ~ Carla Lynne Hall

The first time you hold your baby and see she's all right, you breathe a sigh of relief. You think you've crossed the finish line. You don't realize that the race had just begun. ~ Carla Buckley

Proverbs 31:25 ~ "Strength and dignity are your clothing as you smile at your future! ~ Carla Burns

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie. ~ Carla Bruni

The bottom line is that sometimes the most responsible, loving, efficient, and sane thing we can do is let another person have their process. We can set boundaries if their process is making us insane, and we do not have to agree to enable behavior with which we do not agree. Finally, we can accept the ultimate boundary that their life is their own, and they deserve to find their way, knowing that when we intervene, sometimes we stand in the way of exactly the path that will be of greatest value to them. We can disengage to stay sane, trust them to find their way, and walk with them with a lot less anxiety, guilt, and frustration, and just enjoy being their daughter, son, loved one, rather than trying to play a role that isn't ours to play. ~ Carla Cheatham

We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that. ~ Carla Gugino

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job. ~ Carla Bruni

I don't need much coaxing. ~ Carla Bley

We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play. ~ Carla Overbeck

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance. ~ Carla Bley

Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed. ~ Carla Buckley

I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should! ~ Carla Hall

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. ~ Carla Bruni

You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking. ~ Carla Harris

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. ~ Carla H. Krueger

In all the years he'd read about the Prodigal Son in the Bible, he'd never really cast himself in that role. ~ Carla Laureano

I have to go home and get a few things done. If I don't get out the Pledge soon, the dust bunnies are going to be leaving tracks on my furniture ... ~ Carla Foft

My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything. ~ Carla Hall

Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty. ~ Carla Hall

I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar. ~ Bebe Neuwirth

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Witchcraft isn't about picking up a book, and asking forgiveness.. or learning about spirituality through the words of others. What you learn from those books are the opinions of other people, and not your own. If this is what you believe then you are not an individual. Witchcraft is about accepting that YOU are responsible for the choices that YOU have made, and YOU teaching YOURSELF to make the right choices. Its about learning through YOUR OWN opinions, YOUR OWN life lessons, YOUR OWN inner self, and by doing so.. BECOME an individual. ~ Carla VanKoughnett