Marcianos Chicago Quotes & Sayings

So as I'm walking up and down the grocery aisles, I notice this distinct, mildewy, putrid odor following me. And I keep looking around for the responsible party, until I discover that she is me. I stink. When I get home, Craig rolls out of bed to help me with the groceries and I say "Honey, smell me. I stink." And he sniffs my shirt and says without surprise, "Yes, you do." And I say "Well, what IS that? It's disgusting." And he says the following:
"It's mildew. All our clothes smell like that. We always stink." I'll just give you a few seconds to digest that information. I know I needed a little time. "WHAT? WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME, HUSBAND?" "I was scared to tell you. You get sensitive about ... . housekeeping stuff." "Oh. So let me clarify here. You'd rather reek all day at work and allow Chase to be THE STINKY KID IN CLASS than risk me getting mad?
"Yes. Yes, I would. Definitely. — Glennon Doyle Melton

Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the shapes or textures, or other information from a place that have helped mold our understanding and are now necessary for us to thrive. Overdevelopment and urban sprawl can damage our own lives as much as they damage our cities and countryside. — Tony Hiss

Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot — Jack Kerouac

Whether it's a house or the stars or the desert, what makes them beautiful is invisible. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build. — Leon Brown

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. — Washington Irving

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. — Martin H. Fischer

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose. — Richard Paul Evans

She felt the panic rising in her then. She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world's sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It could come crashing down and there was nothing you could do. And yes, she knew she wasn't right. She knew her everything was canted wrong. She knew her head was all unkilter. She knew she wasn't true inside. She knew. — Patrick Rothfuss

If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia should be predicated on achieving a result that is merciful compassionate. — Mark Durie

Happiness is always there; it is we who are absent. — Marty Rubin

In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting. — Terry Pratchett

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your q name in all the earth! You have set your r glory above the heavens. — Anonymous