Marchelo Quotes & Sayings

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience. — Gary Zukav

The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women — Barack Obama

He felt sorry for me. He wanted a plain country woman and that's what he married, and then he held it against me the rest of my life like I was supposed to change and surprise him somehow. — Marsha Norman

In this our life there are no beginnings but only departures entitled beginnings, wreathed in the formal emotions thought to be appropriate and often forced. Darkly rises each moment from the life which has been lived and which does not die, for each event lives in the heavy head forever, waiting to renew itself. — Delmore Schwartz

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great? — Nelson Mandela

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real. — Salman Rushdie

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published. — Edmund White

Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect. — Bear Grylls

The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation ... — Alphonse Daudet

As regards any specific book, I'm trying primarily to tell a story, in the most effective way I can think of, the most moving, the most exhaustive. But I think even that is incidental to what I am trying to do, taking my output ( the course of it) as a whole. I am telling the same story over and over, which is myself and the world ... I'm trying to say it all in one sentence, between one Cap and one period. I'm still trying to put it all, if possible on one pinhead. I don't know how to do it. All I know to do is to keep on trying in a new way ... life is a phenomenon but not a novelty, the same frantic steeplechase toward nothing everywhere and man stinks the same stink no matter where in time. — William Faulkner

Life has so many tuneless days... what better posture to take than to become a whimsical motherfucker? — Kathleen Collins

Nothing can be further than the truth. — George W. Bush