Margaret Myers Quotes

I can't go back to being who I used to be!'
Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.
'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through. ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. ~ Margaret Mead

Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure. ~ Lorii Myers

He whispered as he kissed down her neck. "I would love nothing more than to take you right here on the counter, Fire Angel, but if I'm late to meet with your grandmothers, they might just decide to throw my ass on a funeral pyre and I wouldn't be back for three days. ~ Brynn Myers

So I think I'll remove him from your mind forever, this way. I'll put my hands, so, on each side of your head and I'll smash your skull between them like a walnut and that will blot him out. ~ Margaret Mitchell

I helped deliver one of my best friend's children. I just was so amazed by my friend, because she was not just a woman, she was not just a mother. At that moment she was creation; she was life; she was God. And as I looked in her eyes, BOOM! Her pussy exploded. ~ Margaret Cho

My job is to stop Britain from going red. ~ Margaret Thatcher

For present purposes he's shortened the name. He's only Snowman. He's kept the abominable to himself, his own secret hair shirt. ~ Margaret Atwood

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person. ~ Margaret Atwood

I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to? ~ Margaret Way

(...) cause after a request like that there's always a next time, wether you say yes or no. ~ Margaret Atwood

I am 'too fiery' ... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~ Margaret Fuller

Paithin- ... he is orn! mother peytin's son, come to lead us to safety!
zifnab- thats it! orn, favors his mother-
roland- no, he doesnt. look! hes human! wouldnt mother whats- her - name's kid be and elf- wait!
i know! he is one of the lords of thillia! come back to us, like the legend foretold!
zifnab- that too! i dont know why i didnt recognize him. the spitting image of his father! ~ Margaret Weis

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. ~ Margaret Laurence

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful. ~ Margaret Wise Brown

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

Today she wears her habitual expression of strained anxiety; she smells of violets. ~ Margaret Atwood

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge. ~ Bob Myers

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies. ~ Margaret Sanger

The present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more vocal than introverts; they are more numerous, apparently in the ratio of three to one; and they are accessible and understandable, whereas the introverts are not readily understandable, even to each other, and are likely to be thoroughly incomprehensible to the extraverts. ~ Isabel Briggs Myers

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. ~ Margaret Thatcher

The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death. ~ Margaret M. Lock

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour. ~ Margaret Thatcher

I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did. ~ Brendan Myers

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. ~ Margaret Fuller

When I saw that, the evidence left by two people, of love or something like it, desire at least, at least touch, between two people now perhaps old or dead, I covered the bed again and lay down on it. I looked up at the blind plaster eye in the ceiling. I wanted to feel Luke lying beside me. I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head. Sometimes it can hardly be borne. What is to be done, what is to be done, I thought. There is nothing to be done. They also serve who only stand and wait. Or lie down and wait. I know why the glass in the window is shatterproof, and why they took down the chandelier. I wanted to feel Luke lying besides me, but there wasn't room. ~ Margaret Atwood

If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate. ~ Rush Limbaugh

A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life. ~ Margaret Walker

Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can't stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust. ~ Margaret Hodge

God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through a treasure chest, rifling for the next discovery. Open your arms and your eyes to the God who stands in plain sight and works miracles in your midst. Look for him in your workdays and weekends, in your meeting-filled Mondays and your lazy Saturdays. Search for him in the snowy sunsets and Sabbaths, seasons of Lent and sitting at your table. Pray for - and expect - wonder. For when you search for God, you will discover him. ~ Margaret Feinberg

(L)ife is like walking between two tall buildings on a tightrope. For some, the rope is wide enough and the walk is easy. For others, it's narrow and hard and maybe there's a strong wind blowing through their days ~ Walter Dean Myers

People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that. ~ Walter Dean Myers

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for. ~ Margaret Mead

The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, ~ Margaret Atwood

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. ~ Margaret Cho

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ~ Margaret Mitchell

What you get is no longer what you see. ~ Margaret Atwood

There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority. ~ Mary Margaret McBride

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs. ~ Margaret Spellings

It's when we stop and think that we rediscover the courage, wit, compassion, imagination, delight, frustration, discovery, and devotion that work can provoke - in short, all the things at work that do count, beyond measure. ~ Margaret Heffernan

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival. ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it. ~ Margaret D. Nadauld