Maelea Davis Quotes & Sayings

I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974. — Natalie Goldberg

I feel it my bounden duty to not only replace displaced bones, but also teach others, so that the physical and spiritual may enjoy health, happiness and the full fruition of our earthly lives. — Daniel D. Palmer

Don't waste your one beautiful life," Vivien said softly. — Ann Hood

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there. — Shane West

And the world goes on regardless of joy or despair or one woman's fortune or one man's loss. And we can't know the lives of others. And we can't know our own lives beyond the details we can manage. And the things that change us forever happen without us knowing they would happen. And the moment that looks like the rest is the one where hearts are broken or healed. And time that runs so steady and sure runs wild outside the clocks. It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change. — Jeanette Winterson

Women need a reason to have sex, while men just need an angle — Josh Stern

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier

The silence of the victims of the past imposes a duty on the present to recover their voices, and we are most free when we willingly take up that duty. — Ken Liu

One's first response is that these Beirutis must be savagely insane to murder each other for such trivial divergences. Don't judge us too harshly. At the heart of most antagonisms are irreconcilable similarities. Hundred-year wars were fought over whether Jesus was human in divine form or divine in human form. Belief is murderous. — Rabih Alameddine

The whole problem is that it would be very bad indeed if God were the author of evil, and we were his victims. That is to say, if we keep the model of the king of the universe in which the creatures are all subjects of the king, then a God who is responsible for evil is being very unkind to the people. But in the Hindu theory, God is not another person. There are no victims of God. He is never anything but His own victim. You are responsible. If you want to stay in the state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. — Alan W. Watts

What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects. — Thomas Sowell

In this particular Billy was a striking instance that the arch interferer, the envious marplot of Eden, still has more or less to do with every human consignment to this planet of Earth. In every case, one way or another he is sure to slip in his little card, as much as to remind us - I too have a hand here. The — Herman Melville

However heart-stopping his smile and however honest his eyes, however much I think of him as a boy fired to greatness by his own ambition, I cannot trust him. — Philippa Gregory