Mardini Waldkirch Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was. — Shirley Temple

I did get a nice compliment from Ramona Fradon a few years ago.She was talking about the one and only Plastic Man comic that I inked for her for DC and she said it was the only time that she'd ever had anyone ink her. Everyone else put in their own personality and changed it. In fact, bless her heart, she said if she were still doing Brenda Starr, she'd have me ink it. — Mike Royer

People do not know what good deeds are. It is udaya karma,unfolding effects of past karma; that makes them do the deeds. The prakruti, the relative self, forces them to do them. What is your own thing [effort] in that? Doing good deeds; that too is mandatory (farajiyat)! — Dada Bhagwan

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa! — Allen Ginsberg

I'm pretty good at walking away from things - probably too good, in fact. — Kate Klise

There are so many works of the mind, so much humanity, that to disburden ourselves of ourselves is an understandable temptation. Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader's store of hypotheses about how life is to be understood. As with scientific hypotheses, even failure is meaningful, a test of the boundaries of credibility. So many voices, so many worlds, we can weary of them. If there were only one human query to be heard in the universe, and it was only the sort of thing we were always inclined to wonder about
Where did all this come from? or, Why could we never refrain from war?
we would hear in it a beauty that would overwhelm us. So frail a sound, so brave, so deeply inflected by the burden of thought, that we would ask, Whose voice is this? We would feel a barely tolerable loneliness, hers and ours. And if there were another hearer, not one of us, how starkly that hearer would apprehend what we are and were. — Marilynne Robinson

Nothing happens accidentally. everything happens through necessity, so it is of little use to complain when fate comes knocking at the door. — Jostein Gaarder

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist. — Eve Ensler

It is time that conservative people of faith jointly commit to praying for our nation (daily, fervently!) and also rise up hand in hand in an effort to raise up a new generation of Franklins and Washingtons and Lincolns and Reagans. — Jonathan Falwell

It hurt to look so I forced myself to keep looking. — Laurelin Paige

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them. — Benjamin Franklin

Unfortunately, like many people who are instinctively bad at something, the Archchancellor prided himself on how good at it he was. Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association. His mental approach to it could be visualized as a sort of business flowchart with, at the top, a circle entitled "Me, who does the telling" and, connected below it by a line, a large circle entitled "Everyone else. — Terry Pratchett

I liked Lost in Space," Stefan said.
"The movie or the TV series?"
"The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie," he said soberly. "It was better that way. — Patricia Briggs

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. — Lindsey Buckingham

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible. — Friedrich August Von Hayek