Gysgt Margaret Quotes

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice. ~ Margaret Cho

If ye have needs to see to, do it quickly."
"You're a stubborn man," she said.
"Tis a good quality in a man," he muttered under his breath as he picked up the saddle. ~ Margaret Mallory

I hardly hear them any more because I hardly listen. ~ Margaret Atwood

Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils. ~ Margaret Atwood

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.
It hasn't happened this morning, either. ~ Margaret Atwood

You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them. ~ Margaret Atwood

Paper isn't important. It's the words on them that are important. ~ Margaret Atwood

Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance. ~ Margaret Mitchell

Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted. ~ Margaret Cho

A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes ... to speak and act in defiance of convention. ~ Margaret Sanger

Placidity and order and everything in its place, with a decorous and sanctioned violence going on underneath everything, like a heavy, brutal shoe tapping out the rhythm on a carpeted floor. ~ Margaret Atwood

Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can ~ Margaret Beckett

Caravanning can be as simple or as luxurious as you choose. My own experience is probably not dissimilar to that of many families across the country who also share this hobby. ~ Margaret Beckett

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy. ~ Margaret Atwood

I was stuck in Port Ticonderoga, proud bastion of the common-and-garden variety button and of lower-priced long johns for the budget-minded shoppers. I would stagnate here, nothing would ever happen to me, I would end up an old-maid like Miss Violence, pitied and derided. This at the bottom was my fear. I wanted to be elsewhere, but I saw no way to get there. Once in a while, I found myself hoping that I would be abducted by white slavers, even though I didn't believe in them. At least it would be a change... ~ Margaret Atwood

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us. ~ Margaret Atwood

My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I'm walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half. ~ Margaret Weis

I gaze upon the thousand stars
That fill the midnight sky;
And wish, so passionately wish,
A light like theirs on high.
I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
I feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind. ~ Margaret Landon

The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head."
"Entering her heart would do. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

You cynical shit," he told himself. Then he started to weep.
"Don't be so fucking sentimental," Crake used to tell him. But why not? Why shouldn't he be sentimental? It wasn't as if there was anyone around to question his taste.
Once in a while he considered killing himself-it seemed mandatory-but somehow he didn't have the required energy. Anyway, killing yourself was something you did for an audience, as on nitee-nitee.com. Under the circumstances, the here and now, it was a gesture that lacked elegance. He could imagine Crake's amused contempt, and the disappointment of Oryx: But Jimmy! Why do you give up? You have a job to do! You promised, remember?
Perhaps he failed to take seriously his own despair. ~ Margaret Atwood

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much. ~ Margaret Atwood

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child. ~ Margaret Mahy

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow. ~ Margaret Atwood

Change can be accommodated by any system depending on its rate, Crake used to say. Touch your head to a wall, nothing happens, but if the same head hits the wall at ninety miles an hour, it's red paint. We're in a speed tunnel, Jimmy. When the water's moving faster than the boat, you can't control a thing. ~ Margaret Atwood

Well into the series .. I had written a show in which Margaret Houlihan comes into my tent and she says: 'how dare you grate that thing before me?' .. where there is an athletic supporter, jockstrap .. the network said you cannot name it, you cannot show it, you cannot even see a piece of white cloth underwear that a man wears .. but every week for several years we have never been censored seeing ladies bras, panties, silk stockings .. I get hit in the face with these things .. I walk through cloth lines .. get tangled up with underwear but because it came in contact with women's erogenous zones it was ok, but not men's! .. really interesting! that was somehow filthy and degrading to do that! And that was after, when we didn't have much censorship over us! ~ Alan Alda

The language and the atmosphere there reminded me of Dante's Inferno. ~ Margaret Powell

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister ~ Margaret Thatcher

We cannot unweave, and remake. For chance and choice happen. They coincide, they coalesce, they mix, and then their joint outcome grows as hard and as fixed as cement. Like a fossil in stone, it hardens, in its own indissoluble, immutable shape. ~ Margaret Drabble

There are other women with baskets, some in red, some in the dull green of the Marthas, some in the striped dresses, red and blue and green and cheap and skimpy, that mark the women of the poorer men. Econowives, ~ Margaret Atwood

[Mead described the Arapesh as a culture in which both sexes were] placid and contented, unaggressive and noninitiatory, noncompetitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting. ~ Margaret Mead

There has to be an "us" because now there is "them". ~ Margaret Atwood

There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Had she been told, she would have been pleased but unbelieving. And the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness. ~ Margaret Mitchell

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief. ~ Margaret Mitchell

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it. ~ Margaret Mitchell

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings ... but there's something dead about it, something deserted. ~ Margaret Atwood

After a certain point, the ravages of experience reverse themselves; we put on innocence with advancing age, at least in the minds of others. ~ Margaret Atwood

The books we love grow dearer as the years go rolling on they are there to comfort us when other joys have gone. Glen Haven will take you on a enchanting journey with dear friends with heart warming thoughts of old times and a great deal of nostalgia you will never want to lose the stories spell or bid farewell to its wonderful characters. ~ Margaret L. Lauder

I should never have expected loyalty from a Douglas," he spat out. He turned his back on her and went to the window. ~ Margaret Mallory

Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing. They skip town or turn perfidious, or else the drop like flies and then where are you? ~ Margaret Atwood

What do I want? I want you to talk about normal things. No I don't. I want you to look me in the eye and say, I know you're dying. ~ Margaret Atwood

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change. ~ Margaret Atwood

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore. ~ Margaret Drabble

Inside the peach, there is a stone. ~ Margaret Atwood

How to divide ourselves fairly between ourselves and the rest of the world is the hardest question we ever have to answer. ~ Margaret Warde

Female artists are biologically confused," said Crake. ~ Margaret Atwood