Marabut Quotes & Sayings

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
-Gwen Goodnight — Jennifer Crusie

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. — Pierre De Coubertin

I am not a teacher, I am a friend who cares. — Debasish Mridha

Having cleaned his armor and made a full helmet out of a simple headpiece, and having given a name to his horse and decided on one for himself, he realized that the only thing left for him to do was to find a lady to love; for the knight errant without a lady-love was a tree without leaves or fruit, a body without a soul. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist. — Joseph Epstein

Are you a religious man, Mr. Williams?" "No, ma'am. I reckon I'm not. But I do enjoy a relationship with my Savior. Will that do? — Cynthia Hickey

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. — Michael J. Fox

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. — Christopher Hitchens

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! — Charles Baudelaire

It turned out that a person could miss someone she had never met, except in her imagination. — Lena Andersson

If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world. — Chade-Meng Tan

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now. — Sanaa Lathan

... that a warrior, aware of the unfathomable mystery that surrounds him and aware of his duty to try to unravel it, takes his rightful place among mysteries and regards himself as one. Consequently, for a warrior there is no end to the mystery of being, whether being means being a pebble, or an ant, or oneself. That is a warrior's humbleness. One is equal to everything. — Carlos Castaneda

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning. — Alexander Kluge