Margerie Lake Quotes & Sayings

But listen to me
there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether you're suited for the task at hand or not. — Haruki Murakami

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty. — Joseph Joubert

You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on. — Michael Schur

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything. — Richard Marius

October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. Room — Victor Hugo

God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises "before the nations." We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them. — Timothy Keller

In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street. — Mona Simpson

It was always easier to maintain strength for others than to face the demons inside. That's probably why Cameron, on his band's tours through so many borderline places later in life, had always made room for charity. Helping others fostered a sense of control. It made a person feel that some day, he might find the strength to help himself. — Johnny B. Truant

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue. — Robert M. Pirsig

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I also believe that we have to protect our country and lead the world with strength and steadiness, and we have to unify our country and you know that's what I want the Democratic Party to stand for and that's what I hope my presidency will achieve. — Hillary Clinton