Muster Quotes - Page 2

• As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

  Michelle Forbes

  Actors, Want, Chords

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• If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Country, Determination, Children

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• Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.

  Annie Dillard

  Wings, May, Bucks

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• From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.

  Purnima Mane

  Husband, Needs, Demand

  "Women Are Daring, Will You Join Them?" by Purnima Mane, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

  Arthur Ashe

  Attitude, Trying, Faces

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• The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Law, Age

  'Mysticism and Logic' (1919)

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• There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

  J. C. Ryle

  Reality, World, Sleepy

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• Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Creating, Confusion

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 03, 2016

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• Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

  Thomas S. Monson

  Pioneers, Generations, Purpose

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• I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Passion, Mean, Giving

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• Be bold. Envision yourself living a life that you love. Believe, even if you can only muster your faith for just this moment, believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Believe, Moving, Love Is

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• Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

  John Armstrong

  Sex, Revenge, Mean

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

  Terry Eagleton

  Truth Is, Ideology, Humans

  Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.174, U of Minnesota Press

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• If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mind, Allure, Stage

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.

  Richard Price

  Running, Character, Writing

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• I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one. Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

  Bo Lozoff

  Spiritual, Eye, Practice

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• Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Careers, Community

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• No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Soul, Desire

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• Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.

  Daniel Dennett

  School, Ideas, Disrespect

  "Liberals and the New McCarthyism" by Derrick Jensen, www.counterpunch.org. August 10, 2015.

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• The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Commitment, Nerves

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• As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.

  Dan Barker

  Compassion, Past, Destiny

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• Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

  Adrienne Rich

  Running, Children, Past

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Art, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

  Edward Kennedy

  Yield, Political Will, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply commonsensical. More than that, the idea that responsible epistemic agents ought to reflect on their beliefs, and hold them only if they somehow pass muster, is utterly natural.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Reflection, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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