Madeleine Wolff Quotes

What was wrong with you?"
"Melancholy. Nothing more or less than that. I have suffered it often. Not because I do not like the court, but because... well, I do not know why. It is just one of those things... This time was particularly bad, though. It was so strong it was like a physical illness. But the doctors said it was melancholy, just melancholy, and that time away would it. 'A fragile disposition,' they called me.... As though one needs to be fragile to be sad. ~ Rhiannon Thomas

You don't teach information in a writing workshop. ~ Tobias Wolff

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself. ~ Madeleine Thien

I won't have any paste-related crimes laid on my head. ~ Veronica Wolff

And you, behind the footlight's lure,
Kissing an actress on the stage,
Will leave her presence there, I'm sure,
As I my people on the page.
And yet - I love you, darling, yet
I sat with someone at a table
And gloried in our minds that met
As sometimes strangers' minds are able
To leap the bounds of times and spaces
And find, in sharing wine and bread
And light in one another's faces
And in the words that each has said
An intercourse so intimate
It shook me deeply, to the core.
I said good-night, for it was late;
We parted at my hotel door
And I went in, turned down the bed
And took my bath and thought of you ... ~ Madeleine L'Engle

It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

What happens to what's happened? ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once. ~ Madeleine Albright

We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed. ~ Madeleine K. Albright

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only deny them their childhood, with its high creativity, but they would have them conform to the secular world, with its dirty devices. The world of fairy tale, fantasy, myth, is inimical to the secular world, and in total opposition to it, for it is interested not in limited laboratory proofs but in truth. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene. ~ Madeleine Stowe

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. ~ Madeleine Albright

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though. ~ Virginia Euwer Wolff

We cannot always cry at the right time
and who is to say which time is right? ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine ~ Victor Hugo

The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Even in his sleep he couldn't escape. ~ Madeleine Roux

The most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes. ~ Nat Wolff

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin. ~ Madeleine Stowe

A book comes and says, 'Write me. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested. ~ Madeleine Stowe

Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well. ~ Madeleine Stowe

We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state. ~ Madeleine Albright

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I was a sitting duck myself, and Arthur had a map of my nerves. ~ Tobias Wolff

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle. ~ Karen Russell

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen. ~ Madeleine Albright

If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile. ~ Madeleine Vionnet

He'd take on that mountain lion with his bare hands before it touched Zane; he knew that much for certain. ~ Madeleine Urban

When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time. ~ Madeleine Albright

And what about for the first eight, ten years of his life, when loving parents encouraged his obsession with dragons and secret worlds and animals in vests who poured tea and drove motorcars and who gave him to read Tolkien and Susan Cooper and the Brothers Grimm and Madeleine L'Engle and C. S. Lewis? Is a boy supposed to leave his imagination on the side of the road when he boards the bus to manhood? ~ David Shafer

And at this point, spacey didn't even begin to describe it - she was catatonic without the commitment. ~ Mishna Wolff

Chess is for everybody. ~ Patrick Wolff

I've made myself vulnerable
I've let myself care.
I've opened my firmly closed heart.
My safety is gone
It's no longer there
My protection is falling apart.

Nobody promised
Our hearts would be safe
Or our bodies protected from harm.
A moment can change
All we think that we have,
Hope will endure through the storm.

Troubling a Star
Madeleine L'Engle ~ Madeleine L'Engle