Margarethe Quotes & Sayings

Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain. — M. Scott Peck

When I find a look that I like, that's my entire wardrobe. — Jeremy Irvine

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance. — Thomas Sankara

I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it. — Joseph Smith Jr.

We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,
but you still have to call it a birthday. — Andrea Gibson

I never judge, I just show. I am not saying, Do not do that. — Margarethe Von Trotta

I've noticed that men get unhappy about women talking about something other than men, or love, or babies. — Margarethe Von Trotta

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. — Eartha Kitt

Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. — Gregory Maguire

I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education. — Weili Dai

Consciousness, which is the "reflective" element of Norman's conceptual brain, handles the "higher" functions at the metaphorical tip of the very top of that complicated organ. Because consciousness pays a lot of attention to your thoughts, you tend to identify it with cognition. However, if you try to figure out exactly how you run your business or care for your family, you soon realize that you can't grasp that process just by thinking about it. As Norman puts it, "Consciousness also has a qualitative, sensory feel. If I say, 'I'm afraid,' it's not just my mind talking. My stomach also knots up. — Winifred Gallagher

Jason nodded. I'd be willing to give it a shot, although ideally, I would love to be out walking my dog and run into some cute guy walking his dog. Naturally that would lead to us talking. Then we'd start meeting in that same place every day, like little ten-minute dates. After weeks of this, maybe even months, we'd agree to meet without the dogs. Unchaperoned, so to speak. That would be romantic. Way more so than a party or a bar. — Jay Bell

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression. — Brandi Carlile

I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong — Gillian Shields

When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels.
After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky. — David Eagleman

Think of a "discovery" as an act that moves the arrival of information from a later point in time to an earlier time. The discovery's value does not equal the value of the information discovered but rather the value of having the information available earlier than it otherwise would have been. A scientist or a mathematician may show great skill by being the first to find a solution that has eluded many others; yet if the problem would soon have been solved anyway, then the work probably has not much benefited the world [unless having a solution even slightly sooner is immensely valuable or enables further important and urgent work]. — Nick Bostrom

I am not in favor of killing - that for me is the line not to be crossed. — Margarethe Von Trotta

I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and can even understand some forms of property crime. — Margarethe Von Trotta