Majken Gilmartin Quotes & Sayings

He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type. — Oscar Wilde

Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes: Your own existence! It is also your best present to others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been. — Chuck Hagel

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication. — Theresa May

Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel

We shouldn't have to be faithful, we should want to be faithful. — Larry Kramer

Time is the fairest and toughest judge. — Edgar Quinet

Hence it's funny to read in the New York Times that liberal Catholic activists are pushing for a change in Church teaching on issues relating to -- well, let's admit it, sex. Nobody is out there demanding the popes revisit the condemnation of Jansenism (don't ask), or settle the question of whether divine grace is or isn't resistable. No, journalists want to know what the Church thinks about whether one person should poke another and, if so, where, when, and how. What liberal Catholics and the journalists who love them are really asking for isfor the Church to admit that it was teaching a set of harsh, repressive errors for nineteen centuries and that now it is very, very sorry. — John Zmirak

Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb. — Madonna Ciccone

Of course, it's true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you're feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don't change. They existed, and that's all there is to it. — Banana Yoshimoto

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures. — Raymond Sokolov

To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the losers to learn the right skills and get the credentials everyone knows you'll need in the society of the future. — Thomas Frank

I do think it's important to be honest about your feelings in a long term relationship because it's totally human to be attracted to other people. It's just about what you do about that attraction. — Zoe Lister-Jones

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific. — Teresa De Lauretis

Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare — Audrey Niffenegger