Mary Russell Quotes

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year ... ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Friendship is the bread of the heart. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

I have discovered that our great favorite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman ... with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers ... ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense. ~ Laurie R. King

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ... ~ Mary Russell Mitford

There is no running away from a great grief. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age ... ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ... ~ Mary Russell Mitford

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief? ~ Laurie R. King

I would have stolen it for you, had I known you were interested." His voice was muffled by the door to the lumber room down the hallway, and I heard thumps and a crash.
I raised my voice a trifle more than mere volume required. "I'm interested because she was. Both of them, come to that
Damian's art is infused with mystic symbols and traditions."
Holmes' voice answered two inches away from my ear, making me jerk and spray a handful of maps across the floor. "Religion can be a dangerous thing, it is true," he remarked darkly, and went out again. ~ Laurie R. King

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books. ~ Laurie R. King

Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United States. So short-lived has been the American Union, that men who saw it rise may live to see it fall. ~ William Howard Russell

The worl is ful of things waiting to happen. Thats the meat and boan of it right there. You myt think you can jus go here and there doing nothing. Happening nothing. You cant tho you bleeding cant. You put your self on any road and some thing wil show its self to you. Wanting to happen. Waiting to happen. You myt say, 'I dont want to know.' But 1ce its showt its self to you you wil know wont you. You cant not know no mor. There it is and working in you. You myt try to put a farness be twean you and it only you cant becaws youre carrying it inside you. The waiting to happen aint out there where it ben no more its inside you. ~ Russell Hoban

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. ~ Mary Oliver

Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave. ~ James Russell Lowell

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ~ Mary McCarthy

I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler. ~ Mary Matalin

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope. ~ Russell Brand

Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married. ~ Jennifer Paynter

Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret
there, I have seen is slavery. ~ Mary Renault

Don't believe anything she tells you. Her name is Mary. Mary is bitterness ~ S.A. David

In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Barbie is just a doll. ~ Mary Schmich

Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects. ~ Dora Russell

His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas. ~ Russell Simmons

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's. ~ Mary Pope Osborne

Who better to confess to than a dying woman? ~ Sara Douglass

I live an immoral life. It is immoral because it is deadly futile. ~ Mary MacLane

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too! ~ Mary Ruefle

He look back toward the dance floor and greeted his teeth. She was in Tristan's arms moving gracefully in rhythm with the music. Tristan with cutting quite a swath through the ladies, he knew it shouldn't grate that his brother was dancing with Mary. Tristan knew more than he knew any of the others. It was expected. But still he didn't like the way Tristan watched her through hooded eyes. But then Tristan caught his gaze an issue a silent challenge: cut in. I dare you. ~ Lorraine Heath

My faith is so strong that I believe that God made me 5-11 for a reason. For all the kids that have been told, no, that they can't do it, or all the kids that will be told no. ~ Russell Wilson

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth. ~ Mary Calderone

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~ David Russell

I moved out to L.A. in July and Hot L Baltimore started in September or October. So I had done a few things. I'd done a Mary [Tyler Moore]. I'd done a Waltons. I hadn't done a Rhoda yet I don't think. ~ Richard Masur

I guess I've just gotten to the point where I don't want to be bored by the characters that I play, and I don't want to feel like I'm having to make something more interesting or I'm having to force something that's not really there on the page. ~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead

How come there's no commandment that says "Thou shalt not rape"? Did God ask Mary for consent before he put a baby in her? Or was God Christianity's first rapist? ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

"For 46 years, we were engaged in a worldwide battle against communism". "During that time, there were countless heroes, who served in our nation's Armed Forces and played a critical role in America's triumph. These men and women, who sacrificed so much for so many, deserve to be awarded the Cold War Service Medal in recognized of their faithful service to their country and tireless defense of freedom around the world." ~ Mary Landrieu

He pulls just an inch away, releasing with a sweet suction my bottom lip. "Your mouth is hot and tastes like honey." I show him the tea that I've been holding out of the way. "I see," he twinkles at me and takes the travel mug, helping himself to a long sip.
He leans back in, and I guess what he's doing just in time. His feeding me the hot sip of honeyed tea should be weird, but as usual, he's so committed to the moment that I just enjoy the sweetness, the intimacy. ~ Mary Ann Rivers

Christian attempts at social witness have often swung wildly back and forth between chest-beating optimism to withdrawal and despair. One minute we are "reclaiming America for Christ," the next we pronounce that American culture is "slouching toward Gomorrah." We lose sight both of the fact that all of human history - from Eden onward - is a war zone, and that God's kingdom triumph is proven not by our electoral success or our cultural influence - as important as that is in being obediently "salt" and "light" in our culture. Our triumph is proven in the resurrection of the world's rightful ruler. ~ Russell D. Moore

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. ~ James Russell Lowell

Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

I knew Chloe LOVED to read, but I was in the middle of a MAJOR life crisis! For once, couldn't she just try focusing on ME instead of her stupid book characters?! Then ~ Rachel Renee Russell

My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go. ~ Russell Wilson

What's interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted. ~ Mary Kay Ash

Lost into a sea of pages is an escape so blissful. ~ Mary Imbruglia (MAI)

I have great respect for Oklahoma's tribal members, and I celebrate their traditions and culture. ~ Mary Fallin

To be groomed is to be loved and handled like a precious, delicate thing ~ Kate Elizabeth Russell

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. ~ Mary Shelley

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary. ~ David O. Russell

The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society. ~ M.C. Mary Kom