Michelle Moran Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Michelle Moran
We are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried. — Michelle Moran
Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water? — Michelle Moran
With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author. — Michelle Moran
In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself. — Michelle Moran
Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time. — Michelle Moran
Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you. — Michelle Moran
My love is unique and none can rival her ... Just by passing, she has stolen away my heart. — Michelle Moran
And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then - if you allow it - everything else. — Michelle Moran
You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift. — Michelle Moran
The only thing money is good for, Marie, is buying time. The time to do the things you like. — Michelle Moran
The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility and clergy should be taxed as well. — Michelle Moran
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau — Michelle Moran
Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. — Michelle Moran
I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly. — Michelle Moran
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE — Michelle Moran
If you have ever met someone who rarely reads, then you will understand the blank look Moti gave me. For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don't exist here. — Michelle Moran
We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction. — Michelle Moran
Even prisoners can escape if they have books. — Michelle Moran
I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward. — Michelle Moran
such a short time. I am about to tell our barker, — Michelle Moran
And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles] — Michelle Moran
Weigh each heart on its own," I shouted, "for how many of us would pass into the Afterlife if Osiris weighed our hearts with those of our akhu? — Michelle Moran
But it is not an option for women like myself and Rose Bertin. Men want wives who are sweet and good with children, not women who plan and watch the accounts — Michelle Moran
Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be. — Michelle Moran
I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it. — Michelle Moran
We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear. — Michelle Moran
That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious. — Michelle Moran
I'm not staring. I'm observing ... And what do you observe? ... A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular. — Michelle Moran
After all, memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage. — Michelle Moran
Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold. — Michelle Moran
Customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity, — Michelle Moran
Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.
Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled. — Michelle Moran
These will be my last moments of peace ... From now on, my love ... will bring nothing but chaos. — Michelle Moran
I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back.
But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt. — Michelle Moran
Nefertiti!" I shouted. "Meritaten!" How could they both be gone? Where could they be? I rounded the corner to the window of Appearences, then opened the door.
The blood had already spread across the tiles.
"Nefertiti!" I screamed, and my voice echoed through the palace. — Michelle Moran
What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things. — Michelle Moran
When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break. — Michelle Moran
Death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it. — Michelle Moran
Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future. — Michelle Moran
I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving. — Michelle Moran
Things change, and not always for the better. — Michelle Moran
She refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself. — Michelle Moran
You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself. — Michelle Moran
If the gods cannot recognize your names," she warned, "they will never hear your prayers. — Michelle Moran
Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner — Michelle Moran
I don't think unhappiness is fated. — Michelle Moran
A country is only as strong as its military, and only as moral as the men who serve in its ranks. — Michelle Moran
You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight. — Michelle Moran
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours. — Michelle Moran
I do sit down every day and make myself write. I want 2,000 words every day or 3 single-space pages a day. I think if you are on a deadline, you have to be disciplined. If you turn things in late, you will find yourself without a contract. — Michelle Moran
The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts.
'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her.
But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt. — Michelle Moran
This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next. — Michelle Moran
I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names. — Michelle Moran
the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II — Michelle Moran
I can wait. I am in love with you, Marie. You don't have to say it yet. I know you like to think things through. Make plans. But plan on this. I want to marry you. — Michelle Moran
History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to. — Michelle Moran
Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself that he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants. - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1897 — Michelle Moran
You mean we won't get to run through burning buildings?" I could see he wanted to laugh, but instead he watched me intently. "What? Why are you staring at me?"
"I'm not staring. I'm observing."
I smiled through my tears. "And what do you observe?"
He brushed his lips against my ear. "A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular. A woman who can't return to the land of her birth, but is wlcome to cross the seas and rebuild Alexandria in mine. And a woman who has suffered enough in Rome and deserves happiness for a change. Will you come to Mauretania and be my queen?"
He drew back to look at me, but I held him closer. "Yes."
"Just yes?"
I nodded and pressed my lips against his. — Michelle Moran
You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so ... — Michelle Moran
Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute ... — Michelle Moran
Our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes! — Michelle Moran
Even in the most wretched life, there's hope. — Michelle Moran
There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. - MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE — Michelle Moran
I let myself be led out, but at the doors of the Great Hall, I turned. "I will never forgive this," I swore, and Nefertiti knew it was meant for her. "I will never forgive this so long as the sun sets on Amarna!" I screamed. — Michelle Moran
And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies. — Michelle Moran
RAMESSES II is one of the most well-known and widely written-about kings of ancient Egypt. A copy of his Treaty of Kadesh, written in cuneiform and discovered in the village of Hattusas, hangs in the United Nations building in New York as the world's earliest example of an international peace treaty. It is also believed that Ramesses is the Pharaoh responsible — Michelle Moran
But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish. — Michelle Moran
My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart. — Michelle Moran
Nothing is forever...nothing lasts. — Michelle Moran
Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light. — Michelle Moran