Mapes Quotes & Sayings

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand. — Emo Philips

But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away. — Mary Mapes Dodge

Everything has been such a whirlwind ever since I stepped foot in the league and everything has been like a dream, so I'm just blessed to be in this position. — Kevin Durant

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way. — Mary Mapes Dodge

I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role. — Hill Harper

Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! ... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill! — Mary Mapes Dodge

Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life
one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank. — Mary Mapes Dodge

Any man who puts a pair of gloves on deserves respect because lots wouldn't dream of it. To get in there and go one-on-one, you need your hand shaking afterwards. Many men wouldn't get involved. — Tyson Fury

I need you. I need to love you. And I need to love you right. — Jay McLean

We should be more concerned with being ruled by fear than we are with being ruled by our imaginations. — Gregory Mapes

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. — Steve Maraboli

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before. — Mary Mapes Dodge

Evil is a departure from the way things ought to be. But it could not be a departure from the way things ought to be unless there is a way things ought to be. If there is a way things ought to be, then there is a design plan for how things ought to be. And if there is such a design plan, then there is a designer." R. Douglas Geivett — Creston Mapes

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be. — Mary Mapes Dodge

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country. — Mary Mapes Dodge

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. — Mary Mapes Dodge

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. — Floyd Abrams

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. — Mary Mapes Dodge

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise. — Mary Mapes Dodge

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago ... — Mary Mapes Dodge

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite. — Rabindranath Tagore

I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas. — Mary Mapes Dodge

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge ... — Mary Mapes Dodge

I wasn't an alcoholic. I didn't drink every day, didn't often drink to excess or binge. And could leave it alone completely for large swaths of time. But I did drink to be social. To have fun with friends. Sometimes, to sleep. Sometimes, to forget. — Ellen Hopkins