Magdalenes Musings Quotes & Sayings

Benedict shall protect the house of FitzOsborne now and for eternity. — Michelle Cooper

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be. — Jodi Picoult

The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood ... then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'" — Henry Ward Beecher

Courage is a divine shield and spear. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment. — Peter Piot

We think we know where we're aiming, and perhaps we do - but morning comes, and a change in the light, and we find out we should've been trying in a different direction after all. — Sarah Perry

The love of your life is the person who makes you forget what all your standards and preconceived notions about love and romance even were. — Carla Neggers

There was really nothing pressing for me to do beyond pouring bubble bath in the fountain at City Hall. — Debra Dunbar

It is a grief to Sir Gervase, yes, that he has no son to inherit his name? — Agatha Christie

It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. Their usefulness lies in their effect on the course of the campaign, in neutralizing rumors and false reports, in maintaining a good spirit in the camp, and in furnishing matter for camp-fire talk. The printed order of the day should fulfill these different ends. — Napoleon Bonaparte

That she was thirsty for heavenly things, there could be no doubt. — Laura Frantz

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. — Parker Palmer

I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation — Keith Buckley

It came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't. — Dorothea Lange

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." "Miss — Harper Lee