Hector La Marque Quotes & Sayings

I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments. — Samantha Bee

I took out my first library card ... I spent most of my Saturdays at the library (no interruptions) breathing in the world of penniless shoeshine boys who, with goodness and perseverance, became rich, rich men, and gave baskets of goodies to the poor on holidays. The little princesses who were mistaken for maids, and the long-lost children mistaken for waifs, became more real to me than our house, our mother, our school or Mr. Freeman — Maya Angelou

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men. — Plato

How do you live again, knowing what waits for you in the end? — Amie Kaufman

I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she'd had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah's arrival to her village. — Terri Blackstock

His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure. — Sharon Kay Penman

In a fear-based, failure-averse culture, people will consciously or unconsciously avoid risk. They will seek instead to repeat something safe that's been good enough in the past. Their work will be derivative, not innovative. But if you can foster a positive understanding of failure, the opposite will happen. — Ed Catmull

Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room. — Lynne Rae Perkins

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness
the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string. — Arthur Nersesian

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white. — Michael Jackson

I'm not a make-up person, but I love wearable products that are easy to use, with fun packaging. — Charlotte Ronson

All ... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. — Thomas Jefferson

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform. — Bertrand Russell