Mardonio Magana Quotes & Sayings

Great tests precede great blessings. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate. — Hugh MacLeod

My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race. - John Stephen Akhwari, 1968 Summer Olympic — John Stephen Akhwari

I'm really afraid of spiders and my own feelings. — Julie Klausner

And I began walking. A thousand miles, or two, I would carry her all the way to Dalbreck if I had to. No one would pry her from my arms again. — Mary E. Pearson

I just invite people to share a secret with me. It's not like I'm a psychiatrist who's going to react to it or a priest who's going to give you something to do. When you let it go, there's kind of this void and I think people like that. — Frank Warren

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference. — Aristotle.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time — Isaac Newton

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck. — Francis Bacon

Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition. — Rocky Anderson

Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you're worthless ... but you're not worthless, you're unappreciated. — Steve Maraboli

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone. — Rachel Weisz

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights. — Ruth Rendell

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink. — Nik Kershaw