Madammen Met Quotes & Sayings

What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline.
Discipline is hard
harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at. — Atul Gawande

Who said you had to fill his shoes?" said Karen. "Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be". — Jennifer Chiaverini

Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. — Henri Frederic Amiel

See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see — L. Ron Hubbard

I fell for Levi "Painter" Brooks the first time I saw him, although in all fairness I did have a head injury at the time. — Joanna Wylde

The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than a dead human being. You don't expect a stone to move. A person robbed of all motion and cold to the touch is the most alien object in the world. Natural instinct drives us away from the decaying body, and quickly. Yet love compels us forward, to kiss the empty vessel of the soul departed. ...Lesson two: there are many fates worse than death. The most common is surviving the death of a loved one. For the dead, all questions have been answered or made irrelevant. For the survivor, some questions have been rendered unanswerable. — Greg Iles

He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important. — Allan Dare Pearce

And looking back, Ruby knew this was when it started; the slow unraveling of all that she had held as sure and true. — Anna Lawrence Pietroni

O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her. — Lord Byron

First of all, in regard to slavery? Do you think it right that Hellenes should enslave Hellenic States, or allow others to enslave them, if they can help? Should not their custom be to spare them, considering the danger which there is that the whole race may one day fall under the yoke of the barbarians? To spare them is infinitely better. Then no Hellene should be owned by them as a slave; that is a rule which they will observe and advise the other Hellenes to observe. Certainly, he said; they will in this way be united against the barbarians and will keep their hands off one another. Next — Plato

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did. — Julie Walters

CHAPTER L 'IN THESE DAYS ONE CAN'T MAKE A MAN MARRY — Anthony Trollope

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better. — Ben Silbermann

When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders. — Carrie Underwood

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny. — Keisha Castle-Hughes