Mabel Rose Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates. — Pervez Musharraf

Struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne's? — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside. — Blaise Pascal

Staying at home with your kids is probably one of the hardest jobs, emotionally, physically and mentally. — Cobie Smulders

What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to. — Ursula K. Le Guin

His motto of "try, take, and top" had changed. Oh, he'd tried Tate all right, and they'd both done a helluva lot of taking, but for once in his life, Logan didn't feel the desire to win. He didn't need to come out on top. What he wanted was Tate's trust - his absolute trust. — Ella Frank

In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold. — Gail Parent

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic . — Kim Stanley Robinson

All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain't got it life's not as complete. — Hopsin

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. — Aristotle.

No, thank you, it's nothing serious. A headache that was not serious was the usual euphemism for a menstrual period, and everyone accepted this without further comment. — Ken Follett

Mabel Rose Chen was a perfect daughter. She knew this because everybody said it.
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The thing about being a perfect daughter was that nobody suspected you might not be so perfect. That maybe you were fascinated by the fact that you belonged to this powerful family, and maybe you weren't so great at violin or tennis or French, but you were very, very good at spying. — Jude Watson

A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it. — George W. Bush

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. — John Dewey

You judge yourself by what your capable of doing, while others judge you by what you have already done — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow