Maggie De Block Quotes & Sayings

Angrier and angrier, that he had to do such things because men were filled with arrogant greed, because some wished to rule with neither the wit nor the self-knowledge to see their inadequacies - and how many of their people would die. — Greg Bear

Wideacre faces due south and the sun shines all day on the yellow stone until it is warm and powdery to the touch. The sun travels from gable end to gable end so the front of the house is never in shadow. When I was a small child collecting petals in the rose garden, or loitering at the back of the house in the stable yard, it seemed that Wideacre was the very centre of the world with the sun defining our boundaries in the east at dawn, until it sank over our hills in the west, in the red and pink evening. — Philippa Gregory

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves. — Aeschylus

The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that. — Cornel West

By the time we were done I was exhausted. I don't know how movie stars do the same scene over and over like that. It takes a lot out of you. — Michael Thomas Ford

The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature. — Nagarjun

Miller's bringing his buns!" I shout back. "But I was going to make my pineapple upside-down cake!" I laugh to myself, all the way to work. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job? — Seth Godin

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit - and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. — Brian Dyson

In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax return out right or not. They have both. They go after the really bad actors and they have a kind of general, routine enforcement — Mark Krikorian

Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind. — Winston Churchill

I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcastically. "Okay, God. — Maggie Stiefvater