Margaret Meads Quotes & Sayings

I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films. — Romesh Gunesekera

She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227] — Anne Lamott

That got her up on stage pretty quick, and she sang a song, which was in Spanish, so I don't know what it was about, except she seemed to be singing it mainly to Sharisse and it had a word that sounded like "poota" in it a lot. — Dave Barry

The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner. — Robert P. McCulloch

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live. — Anne Frank

Playing is more than the act of judging the possibility of defeat or victory, playing is the probability of hope we will have victory. — Pushpa Rana

The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions. — Pope John Paul II

If I do, if I do forget, will you remind me? — Lex Martin

It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works. — William McDonough

Carnival is past millennia's way of sensing the world as one great communal performance. This sense of the world, liberating one from fear, bringing the world maximally close to a person and bringing one person maximally close to another (everything is drawn into the zone of free familiar contact), with its joy at change and its joyful relativity, is opposed to that one-sided and gloomy official seriousness which is dogmatic and hostile to evolution and change, which seeks to absolutize a given condition of existence or a given social order. From precisely that sort of seriousness did the carnival sense of the world liberate man. — Mikhail Bakhtin

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way. — William Shakespeare

Sometimes the very best thing we can do is walk away. — Becky Chambers

You can love someone your whole life and not know why. You can even live with it. — Tarryn Fisher

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so ... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since. — Alice Paul