Afternoons With Margueritte Quotes & Sayings

All life demands change, variety, contrast - else there is small zest to it. — Mark Twain

C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected. — Chris Matthews

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears. — Joanna Southcott

Yes, God knew the number of a man's days. But sometimes that number was small because the enemy had cut it short. — Karen Kingsbury

It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it's like, just try to look good. Or maybe don't use Spelling there, that's bad. No - you can. He's dead. — Vincent Kartheiser

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard. — Holliday Grainger

No man need stay the way he is. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Let us go, then, exploring, this summer morning, when all are adoring the plum blossom and the bee. — Virginia Woolf

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity. — Eric Hobsbawm

The same Spirit who moved in Nineveh and in the Great Awakening still fills the church today. The same power that brought Jesus back from the dead still animates our preaching. People are not "more spiritually dead" today than they were in the days of Jonah or the days of the Great Awakening. There are no degrees of deadness, or any such thing as "mostly dead" (apologies to The Princess Bride). Every conversion to Christ requires the same, glorious miracle of resurrection, and God has not lost his ability to raise the dead. We've simply lost confidence that he will do it on a large scale. — J.D. Greear

When I observed a strong man approaching I generally took advantage of him by being a little quicker than he was and seizing him by the tip of the fingers, giving him a hearty shake, and thus preventing him from getting a full grip upon me. — James K. Polk

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed. — Emily Giffin

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds. — John Edwards

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth. — Khalil Gibran

This moment of yours, and the telling of it, these are the tools of navigating the internal space. Knowing the moment and knowing about the moment. — Noam Shpancer