Malkiel Random Quotes & Sayings

She was screwed by the fates. Cursed with a mate she wanted but couldn't have. — Susannah Scott

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome. — Gautama Buddha

Worry never helped anything, so why turn to it during times of need? It won't nurture or heal you - quite the opposite, actually. It's so much better to put the effort into something creative as a way to quietly meditate through positive action. Create, create, create! — Doreen Virtue

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would. — Gillian Jacobs

There is an end to every journey.
Even life will come to an end one moment in time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps. — Jami Attenberg

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off. — Frank Shorter

I won't leave you but you need to go on up and say your goodbyes. I'll stand right here behind you, Beau whispered from beside me — Abbi Glines

Now it's our turn to kick some tail! — Falco

Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways. — Noah Hawley

Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday was a happy wife, but the woman of today is a miserable mistress. In the past she walked blindly in the light, but now she walks open-eyed in the dark. She was beautiful in her ignorance, virtuous in her simplicity, and strong in her weakness. Today she has become ugly in her ingenuity, superficial and heartless in her knowledge. Will the day ever come when beauty and knowledge, ingenuity and virtue, and weakness of body and strength of spirit will be united in a woman? — Kahlil Gibran

'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did. — Josemaria Escriva

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. — Julius Caesar