Malignance Quotes & Sayings

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my friend Hastings. 'A nice bright girl with no men friends.' You said that in mockery of the newspapers. And it is very true - when a young girl is dead, that is the kind of thing that is said. She was bright. She was happy. She was sweet-tempered. She had not a care in the world. She had no undesirable acquaintances. There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me - the truth. — Agatha Christie

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I continued to stare at the empty seat because my sensation of a vibrant presence there was unrelieved. And in my staring I perceived that the fabric of the seat, the inner webbing of swirling fibers, had composed a pattern in the image of a face - an old woman's face with an expression of avid malignance - floating amidst wild shocks of twisting hair. — Thomas Ligotti

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life. — Joel Edgerton

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money. — John Gutfreund

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others. — Sujata Massey

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician. — Mao Zedong

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are. — Stephen Elliott

Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show. — Stevie Wonder

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it. — Roger Michell

The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort. — Catherine Cookson

I can best express my state of mind by saying that I wanted to be in at the death. — H.G.Wells

A man who invented his life story day after day. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. — George Eliot

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. — Jim Hodges

Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity. — Elena Ferrante