Margaret Brent Quotes

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it. ~ Margaret Halsey

We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. ~ Margaret D. Nadauld

Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight their stories will be about Zenia. ~ Margaret Atwood

I sat at a table in my shadowy kitchen, staring down a bottle of Boone's Farm
Hard Lemonade, when a magic fluctuation hit. My wards shivered and died, leaving my home stripped of its defenses. The TV flared into life, unnaturally loud in the empty house.
I raised my eyebrow at the bottle and bet it that another urgent bulletin was on.
The bottle lost.
"Urgent bulletin!" Margaret Chang announced. "The Attorney General advises all citizens that any attempt at summoning or other activities resulting in the appearance of a supernaturally powerful being can be hazardous to yourself and to other citizens."
"No shit," I told the bottle. ~ Ilona Andrews

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Some men are honorable because of the example set for them, others, choose to be honorable in spite of it ~ Margaret Mallory

I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be the last. ~ Margaret Atwood

He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it. This is one of the most bizarre things that's happened to me, ever. Context is all. ~ Margaret Atwood

The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social. ~ Margaret Mead

The only cartoon I ever liked was 'Fantasia.' ~ Margaret Weis

Hmm?" She raised her eyebrows and looked up at him, then her cheerful expression faded. "Don't look at me like that."
"Like what?" he asked, though he knew damned well what she meant.
"Like ye think I'd be willing to have my wedding night lying in the dirt," she said, narrowing her eyes at him. "If ye believe that, you're quite mistaken."
"So we're only debating where, and not whether, to have a wedding night?" he asked. ~ Margaret Mallory

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR. ~ Margaret Mead

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again. ~ Margaret Atwood

If you do bad things for reasons you've been told are good, does it make you a bad person? ~ Margaret Atwood

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection. ~ Margaret Halsey

Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it. ~ Charles Brent

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. ~ Margaret Deland

Her life began to seem long. Her adrenalin was running out. Soon she would be thirty, and all she could see ahead was more of the same. ~ Margaret Atwood

I've got something that most pretty ladies haven't got - and that's a mind that's made up. ~ Margaret Mitchell

Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick in the paper: you could put your eye to it and see through, to the other side, to the beginning of something else. Or, as Tony says to her students, Time is not a solid, like wood, but a fluid, like water or the wind. It doesn't come neatly cut into even-sized length, into decades and centuries. Nevertheless, for our purposes we have to pretend it does. The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire. ~ Margaret Atwood

In a way, the characters often do take over. ~ Margaret Mahy

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. ~ Margaret Thatcher

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. ~ Margaret Thatcher

This is what it is to grow up. It is to live beyond the blind rush of passion, or hate, or green luxin, or battle juice. It is to see what must be done, and to do it, without feeling a great desire or a great hatred or a great love. It is to confront fear, naked. No armor of bombast or machismo. Just duty, and love for one's fellows. Not love felt, not the love that compelled action without thought, but love chosen deliberately. I am the best person to do this thing, it said, though I may die doing it. ~ Brent Weeks

And what more could a man hope for but to conquer death? ~ Brent Weeks

I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful - but a victim is what I was. "Survivor" is the more healing way to look at it. ~ Margaret Cho

Scarlett, I'm a bad influence on you and if you have any sense you will send me packing - if you can. I'm very hard to get rid of. But I'm bad for you. ~ Margaret Mitchell

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out. ~ Margaret Cho

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality ~ Margaret Halsey

Every community is a gull gliding over a sea of spite, eager for carrion, all too ready to steal, and all too quick to squawk when stolen from. ~ Brent Weeks

On the fifth night of this solitude, she falls asleep with a candle burning and dreams herself a mermaid with a thick and golden tail, a crown of shimmering conch shells, then awakens with a start. Whether the ship hit something or something hit the ship, another change has come. The ship is dying; she can feel it slipping away. She waits beneath the blanket for icy water to greet her. But instead of the sea, it's a bear that opens the door.

A great white bear up on its hind legs steps across the threshold.

'Good morning,' he says, and reaches out a paw. ~ Danielle Dutton

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort. ~ Margaret Landon

But isn't absurdity part of being human? We aren't ageless creatures who watch centuries pass from afar. Our worlds are small, our lives are short, and we can only bleed a little before we fall. ~ Margaret Rogerson

Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off.
Brent Greene ~ Gena Showalter

I haven't sacrificed virgins for my perfect cheekbones, if that's what you mean. Virgins, in general, have fewer magical properties than people tend to assume."

Elisabeth tried not to look too relieved by that information. ~ Margaret Rogerson

Giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite. ~ Margaret Halsey

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat. ~ Margaret Atwood

As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just the same, in spite of her heartbreak. Her ~ Margaret Mitchell

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. ~ Margaret Visser

You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work. ~ Margaret Preston