Margaret And The Moth Tree Quotes & Sayings

True Happiness doesn't come from Prosperity, Pleasure, and Power, but from PEACE.-RVM — R.v.m.

Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil. — Calvin Coolidge

I believe I met my mother there, in the final instant. Not her ghost but some vaster portion of her, her self boundlessly recharged beneath the water. Her courage. In the cave I think she must have lent me some of it, because the strength I felt then was as huge as the sun. The yellow inside you that makes you want to live. I believe that she was the pulse and bloom that forced me toward the surface. — Karen Russell

Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths - or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today. — Ian Frazier

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Many companies expect loyal customers without providing loyal service. This has been the visionary failure of countless corporations. — Steve Maraboli

If I threw a Frisbee at her head, she would be left with two choices: take a Frisbee in the face or have a baby. — James Vavasour

If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people. Good people with kind hearts and clever minds would always have bright eyes and dazzling smiles, and bad people would have scraggly hair and warty noses. That way if you saw one of them coming, you could cross to the other side of the street and avoid them altogether.
But this is not a proper world. In our world, many bad people look quite nice, and many good people are not beautiful at all. Many good people aren't pretty or cute or even interesting-looking. — Brit Trogen

There were days when boredom - or the possibility that things could get boring - was as much of a gift as life was willing to give. — Michelle Sagara

Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us a quality of life where our needs would be taken care of so we could all basically be artists together in the evening, after we had fished, hunted, raised cattle - or whatever it was Marx imagined for us. — Astra Taylor

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives — Cliff Burton

The history of sex is the history of glimpses: first ankles, then cleavage, then knees. More recently, tattoos, navel rings, tongue studs, underwear ... (p. 92). — Geoff Dyer

Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek. — Alexander Eliot

Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to. — John Green