Maracle Quotes & Sayings

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. — Mark Twain

Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes - ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded. — W. H. Auden

Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others. — Bob Burg

I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first. — Dan Carter

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything. — Mark Twain

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath. — Lee Maracle

To be raped is to be sexually violated. For society to force someone, through shame and ostracism, to comply with love and sex that it defines, is nothing but organized rape. That is what homophobia is all about. Organized rape. — Lee Maracle

And what is more dramatic, really, than heartbreak? — Rebecca Serle

In America we have across the country, the entire world. — Tommy Wiseau

I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way. — Lee Maracle

So I left my wonderfully intelligent family and soaked myself in the bath and considered drowning myself. Then I remembered I still had chocolate cake left over from yesterday so I came back up for air. Some things are worth living for. — Cecelia Ahern

Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one? - Lee Maracle, Ravensong — Thomas King

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural. — Lee Maracle

To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death. — Erich Fromm

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women. — Lee Maracle

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not. — Nalo Hopkinson

I am saying that an Igbo man should be president in 2015. It matters where the president comes from, because all segment of the society had been president. People continue letting Ndigbo down because they think we were defeated during the war, which is not true. And until an Igbo man rules this country, the country will not move anywhere, — Orji Uzor Kalu

The Holy Spirit, who enabled me to believe, gave me peace through believing. I felt as sure that I was forgiven as before I felt sure of condemnation. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Her kiss didn't sweep away the dark anguish he felt in his heart. Instead, it embraced it. It acknowledged it. — Courtney Milan

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? — Anthony Hope