Me Quotes

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

You can't process me with a normal brain.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.