Madama Quotes & Sayings

I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly. — Kevin Whately

Just begged the question: If it took so long for one of the best hospitals in the world to get to this step, how many other people were going untreated, diagnosed with a mental illness or condemned to a life in a nursing home or a psychiatric ward? CHAPTER 30 RHUBARB By my twenty-fifth day in the hospital, two days after the biopsy, with a preliminary diagnosis in sight, my doctors thought it was a good time to officially assess my cognitive skills to record a baseline. — Susannah Cahalan

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist. — Anita Shreve

They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left. — Isabel Wilkerson

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good. — John Foster Dulles

He has been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future. — Kate Atkinson

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer. — Honore De Balzac

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. — Nick Cave

Wisdom = Natural intelligence + Spiritual Intelligence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

King consistently argued that rich Western nations had moral and political responsibilities to redress global poverty, something they would never do without world disarmament. — Thomas F. Jackson

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. — Stanley Crawford

To make or not to make a choice is still considered you made a choice as it was choice to choose or not to choose to make a choice. — Auliq Ice

It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words. — Galileo Galilei

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones. — Ellsworth Huntington