Margaret Tudor Quotes

I think that all of them must have lost their minds and have forgotten everything we were to each other. I said that they were no sisters to me, that I would forget them. But they have gone further than this: they have become my enemies. ~ Philippa Gregory

His favorite quote is from Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. ~ Emily Giffin

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling. ~ Margaret Atwood

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again. ~ Frederic Tudor

He ran both his hands through his hair, as if somehow that would straighten out his thoughts. ~ Margaret George

The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom. ~ Margaret Thatcher

..there goes this day, down to where all the other days have gone, each one carrying something away with it. ~ Margaret Atwood

Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them. ~ Margaret Stohl

Each has a placard hung around his neck to show why he has been executed: a drawing of a human fetus. They ~ Margaret Atwood

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ... ~ Margaret Oliphant

Why Is It That When You Wash Two Socks You Only End Up With One? Is There Life After Death? and Where Did The Other Sock Go? ~ Margaret Weis

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men. ~ Margaret Mead

She was reading Francis Godwin's Man in the Moone--its man was borne into space in a carriage drawn by swans--when she heard the sound of wheels upon the gravel. Two boxes from Martin & Allestyre were set down on the drive. 'My modest closet plays,' she said. She nearly ran down the stairs--for the recovery of her wayward crates that spring and the preparation of her plays for publication had rekindled inside Margaret a flame she'd feared had gone out. ... But now, in turning the pages, she grew concerned and then incensed: 'reins' where she had written 'veins,' 'exterior' when she had clearly meant 'interior.' The sun went down. The room grew dim. ... 'Before the printer ruined it,' she cried, 'my book was good!'

'Could it be,' he asked, soaking his bread in {lamb's} blood, 'that you were yourself the cause of this misfortune? ~ Danielle Dutton

Perhaps there is something more frightening than love itself. ~ Margaret Stohl

Everything drifts. Everything is slowly swirling, philosophies tangled with the grocery lists, unreal-real anxieties like rose thorns waiting to tear the uncertain flesh, nonentities of thoughts floating like plankton, green and orange particles, seaweed
lots of that, dark purple and waving, sharks with fins like cutlasses, herself held underwater by her hair, snared around auburn-rusted anchor chains. ~ Margaret Laurence

Lucas motions to Ro's ears, where the blood is spattering down to his shoulders. "Let's just get this done before our heads explode." Ro considers him for a long moment, then hands him Tima's map. ~ Margaret Stohl

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu. ~ Andrei Codrescu

I'm not playing the race card. I'm playing the rice card. ~ Margaret Cho

I seized the dagger from him. Having no idea what to do with it afterward, I lifted the cushion I was lying on and shoved it underneath, then threw my weight back on top. "Stop being melodramatic! I am not going to kill you in my parlor!"

He stared at me in disbelief. "Did you just sit on it?"

"Yes," I said mutinously. ~ Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment Of Ravens

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. ~ Margaret Atwood

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling? ~ Margaret Gatty

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone ~ Margaret Mead

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity. ~ Margaret Cho

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me. ~ Margaret Walker

It doesn't matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage."
"Oh, Pa, that's such an Old Country notion!"
"And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel? ~ Margaret Mitchell

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you. ~ Margaret Atwood

You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people. ~ Margaret Thatcher

I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me. ~ Margaret Murray

When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict. ~ Margaret Atwood

Gender roles suck, says Swift Fox.
Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby. ~ Margaret Atwood

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit. ~ Margaret Sanger

I used to wonder why ... Mum kept having babies ... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing
at least at the time when you were actually making the children. The fact that it would cost you something later on, well, the working-class people never looked ahead in those days. ~ Margaret Powell

All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role. ~ Margaret Chan

The books I was given to learn from were about a boy and a girl called Dick and Jane. The books were very old, and the pictures had been altered at Ardua Hall. Jane wore long skirts and sleeves, but you could tell from the places where the paint had been applied that her skirt had once been above her knees and her sleeves had ended above her elbows. Her hair had once been uncovered. ~ Margaret Atwood

I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me. ~ Margaret Atwood

I remember saying to my mother, 'Why do you have so many children? Is it hard to have children?' And she said, 'Oh, no. It's as easy as falling off a log.'
You see that was the only pleasure poor people could afford. It cost nothing – at least at the time when you were actually making the children. The fact that it would cost you something later on, well, the working-class people never looked ahead in those days. They didn't dare. It was enough to live for the present. ~ Margaret Powell

Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window. ~ Margaret George

There is never only one, of anyone ~ Margaret Atwood

I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy. ~ Margaret Morse Nice

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg. ~ Margaret Drabble

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models. ~ Sarah Palin

Who invented the word love? ~ Margaret Atwood

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo. ~ Margaret Atwood

For a time I almost believed what I understood I was supposed to believe. I numbered myself among the faithful for the same reason that many in Gilead did: because it was less dangerous. What good is it to throw yourself in front of a steamroller out of moral principles and then be crushed flat like a sock emptied of its foot? Better to fade into the crowd, the piously praising, unctuous, hate-mongering crowd. Better to hurl rocks than to have them hurled at you. Or better for your chances of staying alive.
They knew that so well, the architects of Gilead. Their kind has always known that. ~ Margaret Atwood