Michelle Moran Quotes

You mean we won't get to run through burning buildings?" I could see he wanted to laugh, but instead he watched me intently. "What? Why are you staring at me?"
"I'm not staring. I'm observing."
I smiled through my tears. "And what do you observe?"
He brushed his lips against my ear. "A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular. A woman who can't return to the land of her birth, but is wlcome to cross the seas and rebuild Alexandria in mine. And a woman who has suffered enough in Rome and deserves happiness for a change. Will you come to Mauretania and be my queen?"
He drew back to look at me, but I held him closer. "Yes."
"Just yes?"
I nodded and pressed my lips against his.

I'm not staring. I'm observing ... And what do you observe? ... A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.

Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.
Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.

Our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.

After all, memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

If the gods cannot recognize your names," she warned, "they will never hear your prayers.

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

The only thing money is good for, Marie, is buying time. The time to do the things you like.

Even in the most wretched life, there's hope.

I don't think unhappiness is fated.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

But it is not an option for women like myself and Rose Bertin. Men want wives who are sweet and good with children, not women who plan and watch the accounts

Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else.

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

RAMESSES II is one of the most well-known and widely written-about kings of ancient Egypt. A copy of his Treaty of Kadesh, written in cuneiform and discovered in the village of Hattusas, hangs in the United Nations building in New York as the world's earliest example of an international peace treaty. It is also believed that Ramesses is the Pharaoh responsible

History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute ...

Death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it.

The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts.
'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her.
But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

Repeat the names," my mother instructs, and we listen while Paschal recites the names of the months.
"Vintage, Fog, Frost, Snow, Rain …" He hesitates on the sixth month.
"Wind," she says helpfully. We are all sitting at the caissier's desk, and it is very important he get this right.
"Wind," he repeats after her. "Seed, Blossoms, M-Mead - "
"Meadows," I say.
"Meadows, Harvesting, Heat, and Fruit."
Isabel claps. "Very good."
"And what year is this?" my mother asks.
Paschal frowns. "Seventeen ninety-three?"
"No," Isabel says forcefully. "It is Year Two."
"But I don't understand."
"The first year began on September twenty-second, seventeen ninety-two." The day France declared itself the First Republic.
"But how?" He doesn't see how he could have been alive before time began.
"That is the decree of the Convention," she explains.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

A country is only as strong as its military, and only as moral as the men who serve in its ranks.

I do sit down every day and make myself write. I want 2,000 words every day or 3 single-space pages a day. I think if you are on a deadline, you have to be disciplined. If you turn things in late, you will find yourself without a contract.

Everything looks new, but then that is the nature of science.

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back.
But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

If you have ever met someone who rarely reads, then you will understand the blank look Moti gave me. For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don't exist here.

We all die. Some of use are fortunate to die fighting for justice.

And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then - if you allow it - everything else.

But there is nothing interesting about being unprepared.

The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility and clergy should be taxed as well.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. - MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so ...

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

We are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself that he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants. - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1897

My love is unique and none can rival her ... Just by passing, she has stolen away my heart.

Things change, and not always for the better.