Madelon Phillips Quotes

Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe ~ Madelon Phillips

I turned and looked out the window at the snow and tried to think of the year-round sunshine in California. I tasted salt as tears streamed down my face and into my mouth. Marge said, "You can't move. ~ Madelon Phillips

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. ~ Phillips Brooks

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film. ~ Sally Phillips

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. ~ Charles Phillips

Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint? ~ Walter J. Phillips

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. ~ Arthur Phillips

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty. ~ Sally Phillips

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't. ~ Phillips Brooks

I love my mother. I reach out to my mother. ~ Jeanne Phillips

Wanting is what we do to survive, and we want only what isn't there ~ Adam Phillips

I don't get star-struck at all. ~ Sally Phillips

Charlie glared at the puppet. "I'm really mad."
"Sure you are. Super mad." Leo circled his head one way and then the other. "I've got an idea."
"What?"
"Tell him how mad you are. Then look really pitiful and ask him to take you Boogie-boarding. If you look pitiful enough, I bet he'll feel so bad that he'll take you."
Charlie wasn't born yesterday. He looked past Leo to the man holding him. "Really! Can we go right now?"
His father set Leo aside and shrugged. "The waves look good. Why not? Get your stuff."
Charlie jumped up, and raced toward the house. His legs pumping. But just as he got to the front step, he stopped and whipped around. "I get to drive!"
"No you don't!" his mother countered, slipping Scamp from her arm.
Charlie stomped inside, and his father laughed. "I love that kid. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The last one's hard. Marriage is always a balancing act, and it's never a good idea for one partner to get too big a head, but I'm afraid that's what's going to happen here. People write a lot of things about Eric Dillon's talent, and most of it's true. But nobody writes about the important things. The fact that he's a wonderful father and the best husband a woman could have. That fact that he cares about other people so much that he sometimes scares me. That doesn't mean he's perfect, of course. It's hard living with a man who's prettier than all of your girlfriends put together. But if it weren't for Eric Dillon, I wouldn't be here tonight. He loved me when I wasn't lovable, and I guess when it comes right down to it, that's pretty much what family is all about. Thank you, sweetheart. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,' Tavis reflected. 'Together, we need to build something that's never existed before - a global network of light. ~ Jonathan Talat Phillips

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life. ~ Phillips Brooks

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing. ~ Phillips Brooks

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life. ~ Phillips Brooks

I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first. ~ Zara Phillips

Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn't love her back? ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun. ~ Arthur Phillips

It is always dullest before the yawn. ~ Bob Phillips

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that. ~ Zara Phillips

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. ~ Wendell Phillips

A smug smile crept onto my lips, I said, "Is that jealousy I detect?"
"No. Not jealousy. Possessiveness. You're mine. You will always be mine. Just like I'm yours, and will always remain yours. ~ Marilyn Phillips

Indeed, this is what modern and postmodern masculinity has been all about-men behaving like little boys forever, serving themselves in the name of self-discovery. (Can we imagine someone like Ronald Reagan or Winston Churchill talking about going on a quest to find his masculine self? They were too busy changing the world.) ~ Richard D. Phillips

From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing. Even when I was twenty years old, I called the gym my church. When I was there, it wasn't about being social; it was about doing my practice. I was in it. I was in the zone. ~ Shawn Phillips

Years ago she had discovered that she could control her relationships with heterosexual men far better by playing the sexy siren than the blushing ingenue. Being the sexual aggressor put her subtly in charge. She was the one who defined the rules of the game instead of the man, and when she sent her suitor on his way, he assumed it was because he didn't measure up to all the other men in her life. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with reality and be ready to accept the fact that leadership , at times, can bring out the worst in us. And understanding, as well as coming to grips with the darker side of your personality, is key to dealing with real-life situations. ~ Donald T. Phillips

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration. ~ John L. Phillips

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. ~ Wendell Phillips