Maccoy Holtam Quotes & Sayings

Socrates was a wise man. Surveying the goods on a market stall, the great one was said to have remarked, What a lot of things a man doesn't need! — Ruth Downie

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. — Elizabeth Moon

Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see. — Marianne Williamson

It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances. — Vicki Robin

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are perceived as ugly and painful. This mechanism gives rise to those states of mind that we are training ourselves to avoid
things like greed, lust, hatred, aversion, and jealousy. — Henepola Gunaratana

In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country. — Tom Golisano

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. — Marguerite Duras

The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but — Amor Towles

Him a first edition of Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival and another who thinks I owe — Tim Kreider

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem. — Betty Friedan

We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever. — Henry B. Eyring

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver. — Rodrigo Rato

We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time. — David Hyde Pierce

When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire. — Jim Butcher