Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.
What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*
Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.
But I was learning forgiveness didn’t have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.
Some men may be unready for the coming of the genie who grants three wishes.
I realize that not everyone could be granted the chance of getting a decent closure – most people just deal with the decisions they made then on their own.
The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overal...
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.
The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.
In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is , something which is 'wholly mother'.
Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.
If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".
