Maakies Characters Quotes & Sayings

Courage is not an absence of fear, but an act of the will to move forward in the presence of fear. Fear whispers, "You might ... " Courage rebuffs it with, "Sure, but ... ." To seek a fearless life is not the same as seeking a life of courage. If we're talking about story, which is about nothing if not life, no one gives a damn about fearlessness. Very few great stories move forward with a fearless hero. Why would they? — David DuChemin

It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy. — Adam Riess

Put Jesus Christ in the driver's seat of your life and take your hands off the steering wheel. — Rick Warren

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. — Berenice Abbott

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces. — Jose Carreras

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people. — Tom Peters

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false. — Enya

The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was either the heart by itself or the whole lot together. — George Fetherling

We must confess these three strange names struck us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pseudonyms, under which d'Artagnan had disguised names perhaps illustrious, or else that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from caprice, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer's uniform. — Alexandre Dumas

No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did. — Laura Lippman

The first requisite for immortality is death. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink. — Reggie White

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. — Renata Adler