Mangeoire Quotes & Sayings

SPRING Somewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staring down the mountain. All night in the brisk and shallow restlessness of early spring I think of her, her four black fists flicking the gravel, her tongue like a red fire touching the grass, the cold water. There is only one question: how to love this world. I think of her rising like a black and leafy ledge to sharpen her claws against the silence of the trees. Whatever else my life is with its poems and its music and its glass cities, it is also this dazzling darkness coming down the mountain, breathing and tasting; all day I think of her - her white teeth, her wordlessness, her perfect love. — Mary Oliver

What the Internet was for the 1990s, green jobs are for the 2000s. — Terry McAuliffe

They must be doing something right up there in Canada. — Hugh Hefner

Lady Harborough ... was on the platform, making a short speech in which she described the valuable work her hospital fund was doing. It seemed to consist largely of rescuing unmarried mothers from poverty and subjecting them to slavery instead, with the additional disadvantage of being preached at daily by evangelical clergymen. — Philip Pullman

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines - generous, gum-yielding trees - to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay. — Amy Gerstler

Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster. — Kathryn Minshew

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow! — Joyce Meyer

I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education. — Weili Dai

The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it. — Tullian Tchividjian

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease. — Ayn Rand

We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration. — Stjepan Hauser

We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success. — Pauline Marois