Marian Bendeth Quotes

Fragrance should never be worn like a thick scented choker, where the scent emanates from the neck in strong blasts like a foghorn! Rather, it should sparkle like twinkling stars, where small bursts disperse here and there, they elude us, pique our curiosity and make us want more. ~ Marian Bendeth

Fragrance speaks the loudest on a subliminal level. ~ Marian Bendeth

Perfume is born of both pleasure and pain.
It envelops the neck and reaches deep to the heart of recollection without notice. ~ Marian Bendeth Global Fragrance Expert Sixth Scents

Perfume is like cocktails without the hangover, like chocolate without the calories, like an affair without tears, like a vacation from which you never have to come back. ~ Marian Bendeth

True artistry in perfumery is the marriage of notes that may juxtapose each other but become harmonious in a blend. Born of pure creativity and an astounding knowledge of literally thousands of synthetics and hundreds of Essential oils, they must possess the ability to marry disparate and conjugal notes into a harmonious blend. ~ Marian Bendeth

Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts. ~ Marian Keyes

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well. ~ Marian McPartland

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold. ~ Marian Dragulescu

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed. ~ Marian Engel

This is my wife, Marian Robertson. No matter what came before the day we joined ourselves each to the other, she is mine now and Iam hers. If anyone speaks ill of her or calls her whore, they attack me as well and Iwill answer for it. ~ Terri Brisbin

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Traveling would be quite perfect if only one could go home at night. ~ Marian Hooper Adams

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Aunt Prue was holding one of the squirrels in her hand, while it sucked ferociously on the end of the dropper. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need. 'How could you possibly know that?' 'We looked it up on the E-nternet.' Aunt Mercy smiled proudly. I couldn't imagine how my aunts knew anything about the Internet. The Sisters didn't even own a toaster oven. 'How did you get on the Internet?' 'Thelma took us ta the library and Miss Marian helped us. They have computers over there. Did you know that? ~ Kami Garcia

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Holland seems like a quaint toy. ~ Marian Hooper Adams

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Marian consecration basically means giving Mary our full permission (or as such permission as we can) to complete her motherly task in us, which is to form us into other Christs. Thus, by consecrating ourselves to Mary, each of us is saying to her: Mary, I want to be a saint. I know that you also want me to be a saint and that it's your God-given mission to form me into one. So, Mary, at this moment, on this day, I freely choose to give you my full permission to do your work in me, with your Spouse, the Holy Spirit. ~ Michael Gaitley

The game's not over till it's over. ~ Marian Tee

It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face ~ Marian Keyes

I employ this thing I called The Shovel List."
"A shovel..?"
"No, a shovel list. It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much I want to hit them in the face with a shovel. ~ Marian Keyes

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless. ~ Marian Anderson

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Where have I been? she wondered. Is a life that can now be considered an absence a life?

For some time things had been going badly for her. She could cite nothing in particular as a problem; rather, it was as if life in general had a grudge against her. Things persisted in turning grey. Although at first she had revelled in the erudite seclusion of her job, in the protection against the vulgarities of the world that it offered, after five years she now felt that in some way it had aged her disproportionately, that she was as old as the yellowed papers she spent her days unfolding. When, very occasionally, she raised her eyes from the past and surveyed the present, it faded from her view and became as ungraspable as a mirage. Although she had discussed this with the Director, who had waved away her condition of mind as an occupational hazard, she was still not satisfied that this was how the only life she had been offered should be lived. ~ Marian Engel

Wasn't this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period, ~ Marian Keyes

The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move them, sometimes a few feet, sometimes miles and miles, so that at the end of the day, when the sun sets, the face of the desert is completely different from the landscape it had in the morning when the sun rose on it. ~ Marian Keyes

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. ~ Marian Anderson

Acting takes so much energy. ~ Marian Seldes

That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven. ~ Marian Keyes

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear. ~ Marian Keyes

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place. ~ Marian McPartland

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it. ~ Marian Keyes

There are a million good tunes. ~ Marian McPartland

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

A person has to be busy to be alive. ~ Marian Anderson

The letter was the one that Albert Bridges had sent to their aunt. Of course, Marian hadn't doubted he was who he said he was.She hadn't needed proof.
But she pretended to be satisfied with the proof he offered and with a sniff and a shoveof her spectacles more tightly to the top of her nose,she said primly, "Very good.I'm glad we are in capable hands," and she walked away.
It was probably his annoyance that made him say to her back, "Capable? No,just my hands." At least,she hoped it was just his annoyance. ~ Johanna Lindsey

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. ~ Marian Anderson

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of great deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. And who, while daring greatly, spends himself in a worthy cause so that his place may not be among those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt quoted by Edelman ~ Marian Wright Edelman

I had thought the only person Neil loved was himself. That he probably shouted his own name when he was coming. ~ Marian Keyes

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

I especially love the way he moves, like a young god who takes his time walking because he wants mere mortals like me to bask in his perfection. ~ Marian Tee

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater. ~ Marian Seldes