Marciana Furniture Quotes & Sayings

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness — Augustine Of Hippo

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible. — Geoffrey Canada

Finally, I want to thank all of the writers, filmmakers, actors, artists, musicians, programmers, game designers, and geeks whose work I've paid tribute to in this story. These people have all entertained and enlightened me, and I hope that - like Halliday's hunt - this book will inspire others to seek out their creations. — Ernest Cline

Why did you marry him then? (Francesca)
I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I thought he was a noble prince. I had no idea he was barely one step up from a monkey. I take that back and I deeply apologize to all the primates of the earth for insulting them. He's not worthy of monkeydom. He's a slimy slug trail. (Esperetta) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays. — Edgar Bergen

Life isn't how to survive the storm, it's about how to dance in the rain. — Taylor Swift

The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place. — William Kittredge

I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips. — Coco Austin

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it — Bill Gates

Witches married outside their species all the time, especially before the Turn. There were perfectly acceptable options: adoption, artificial insemination, borrowing your best friend's boyfriend for a night. Issues of what was morally right and wrong tended not to matter when you found yourself in love with a man you couldn't tell you weren't human. It sort of went with the whole hiding-among-humans-for-the-last-five-thousand-years thing. — Kim Harrison

Here, too, we tend to be schizophrenic. We would all like to see government spending go down, provided it is not spending that benefits us. We would all like to see deficits reduced, provided it is through taxes imposed on others. — Milton Friedman

The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it. — Glenn Gould

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! — William Blake

Ukraine must be permitted to bring their own relief supplies safely to areas in the east of the country that are controlled by the separatists. — Angela Merkel

An unguarded gaze can spill a thousand secrets. — Roshani Chokshi