Deffand Marie Quotes & Sayings

just want him to treat my sister right because if he doesn't, I have an ass whippin' that I've put on reserve just for him, and it ain't never gonna expire. — S.K. Hardy

Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home. — Katy Butler

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style. — Carol W. Greider

I, on the other hand, have no faith that your mission - whatever it is - can succeed. I'm content to bide my time here in this tiny, damp, worm-infested hovel and wait for the world to end. Cheers. — Gillian Bronte Adams

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. — Tara Brach

Everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

There is, then, a world immune from change. But I am not composed enough, standing on tiptoe on the verge of fire, still scorched by the hot breath, afraid of the door opening and the leap of the tiger, to make even one sentence. What I say is perpetually contradicted. Each time the door opens I am interrupted. I am not yet twenty-one. I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here in this room. — Virginia Woolf

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things. — Josh Turner

The first step is the hardest. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it. — Hildegard Of Bingen

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. — Susan George

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others. — Letitia Baldrige

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Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best. — Rik Mayall

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born! — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Clara Morrow had painted Ruth as the elderly, forgotten Virgin Mary. Angry, demented, the Ruth in the portrait was full of despair, of bitterness. Of a life left behind, of opportunities squandered, of loss and betrayals real and imagined and created and caused. She clutched at a rough blue shawl with emaciated hands. The shawl had slipped off one bony shoulder and the skin was sagging, like something nailed up and empty.
And yet the portrait was radiant, filling the room from one tiny point of light. In her eyes. Embittered, mad Ruth stared into the distance, at something very far off, approaching. More imagined than real.
Hope.
Clara had captured the moment despair turned to hope. The moment life began. She'd somehow captured Grace. — Louise Penny

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done? — Rick Riordan