Famous Ralph Marston Quotes & Sayings

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures
this makes it only more potent. — Tayari Jones

It is of interest of times to change, Mr. Helecki. And it is the business of gentlemen to change with them. — Amor Towles

In my baggy jeans and messy hair, I know I don't fit into this plastic palace. But I don't want to fit in. That's when no one notices you. You leave a longer impression when you're brave enough to stand out. — Katie Kacvinsky

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart. — Ross Macdonald

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. — J.G. Ballard

Wisdom comes with age and experience. — Matthew Skelton

Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance. — Jack Hyles

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. — Oswald Chambers

I like a woman who takes care of herself - it says something about the way she'll care for me. — Usher

People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes."

"You speak in riddles, aged progenitor."

"The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is something that is new forever: you. Every morning of your life and every evening, every moment is new. You have never lived this moment before and you never will again. In this sense the new is also the eternal. — Tony Hendra

To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing
and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good
but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad. — William Pepperell Montague

It's how people fish when they've run completely out of bait, dynamite, and any common sense whatsoever. There — Jenny Lawson

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. (Song of Solomon 6:3a) — Anonymous

Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job. — Chris Pine