Mailap Quotes & Sayings

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. — Robin McKinley

For so long, my body has been a battleground. I want to get closer to you, but I don't know how. — Pamela Clare

I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie. — Peter Gallagher

Planning, gentlemen, is 'What are you going to do next year that's different from what you did this year?'" he told them. "All I want is five items. — Bryan Burrough

A child of God, special possession. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind. — Zach Galifianakis

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. -Rhett Butler — Margaret Mitchell

I have been given many teachings by Sarutahiko-no-O-Kami. OKami told me, 'By the work of Takehaya Susanowo no Mikoto, you will worship the Ame no Murakumo KuKamisamuhara Ryu O (Kami of Takemusu) and build an Aiki shrine and dojo.' Then I built the Aiki shrine and dojo in Iwama, Ibaragi prefecture in 1940. — Morihei Ueshiba

Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake. — Shannon L. Alder

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way. — Margaret Atwood

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region. — Sandy Berger

At least this mountain world, to which I owed so much of life and happiness, would stand above the ruin of human hopes, the heritage of a saner generation of men. — Eric Shipton

The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced
that without intelligence we should be brutes
but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world. — George Henry Lewes

He had very few criticisms to make of Precious Ramotswe, his wife and founder of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, but if one were to make a list of her faults - which would be a minuscule document, barely visible, indeed, to the naked eye - one would perhaps have to include a tendency (only a slight tendency, of course) to claim that things that she happened to believe were well known. — Alexander McCall Smith