Arthur Marwick Quotes & Sayings

For those who suffer disposal, the cost is their very lives. For those of us who survive, there is a creeping indifference to anything other than one's own survival, which results in increased selfishness, hardness of heart, denial - which in the long range will bring about the devaluation of self. To counter this devaluation, therefore, one flees into pride of accomplishment. Isn't what we do the defining measure of selfhood in our society? — Michael D. O'Brien

And his legacy. If you are doing what everyone else is doing, you are doing something wrong. Why? Because most people are not obtaining results that are considered extraordinary. — Andy Andrews

Shift from mediocrity to excellence. Mediocrity and Excellence are like jealous suitors fighting for a partner and competing to please him/her, to the extent they do all they can to reproduce in sets of twins. Mediocrity gives birth to Irrelevance and Obscurity, whilst Excellence breeds Relevance and Significance. These sets of twins cannot inhabit the same life, only one compatible pair can co-exist. — Archibald Marwizi

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism. — John Guare

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul? — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths. — Ali Smith

I gave everything for you, Vasilisa Petrovna.'
'Not everything,' said Vasya. 'Since clearly your pride is intact, as well as your illusions. — Katherine Arden

Ignorance of the law is not excuse for breaking it. Make no mistake about it, — Evangeline Anderson

One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon. — Takeda Nobushige