Muster Quotes - Page 3

• It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

  Stephanie Mills

  Responsibility, Artist, Discipline

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

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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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• We must muster the courage, we must find the will, we must do what is necessary to build a truly transformative movement that will end the history and cycle of caste in America.

  Michelle Alexander

  America, Movement, Ends

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Optimism, Challenges, Ghost

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• The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

  Lucian Freud

  Way, Observation, Concentration

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• Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

  Herman Melville

  War, Fighting, Men

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.304

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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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• I use all my skills that I can muster up, but the fun thing is that I find some untapped skills every once in a while. I get that from my daddy.

  Reba McEntire

  Fun, Skills, Daddy

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• Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

  John Maus

  Writing, Achievement, Faces

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Majesty, Clamor

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• What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.

  Steve Goodier

  Kindness, Regret, What If

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• I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

  Anne Morice

  People, Action, Argument

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• Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Boys, Blue, Color

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• It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Change, Courage

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• But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Fighting, People

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly 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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• 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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• And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

  Chris Murray

  Men, Energy, Charlatans

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• Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

  Ann Voskamp

  Stress, Anxiety, Energy

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• Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Pain, Choices

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.198, Zondervan

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• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  Harold Washington

  Political, Needs, Never Quit

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head fondly before continuing down the aisle. She didn't seem to care that he was fifteen, which was all right, because he didn't, either. Both Ronan and Declan observed this interaction with the pleased expressions of parents watching their prodigy at work.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Expression, Parent, Looks

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• If you muster that courage to stand under fire and not go down, you will amass an inner strength that no one can touch. You won’t be another faceless, nameless, forgotten human in a long historical line of the defeated. You will be a steeled warrior, and a force to be forever reckoned with. And beneath the pain that lingers, you will have the comfort of knowing that you are strongest of all. That when others caved and broke, you kept fighting even against hopeless odds.” - Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Fighting, Warrior

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• he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.

  Andrew Saul

  Teacher, Doctors, Voters

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• Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Military, War, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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