Margriet Bloem Quotes & Sayings

Our characters are forged in fires we didn't build. — Patricia Ryan

Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. — Barbara Kingsolver

I was sure that if he didn't have that damn accent I would have seen through him immediately. Oh, those Brits could be so charming and manipulative with their proper way of talking. — Rachel Higginson

Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are some primitive desire for brutality makes them try to provoke it. — Dodie Smith

Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows. — Dianna Hardy

We are apt to call things by wrong Names. We will have Prosperity to be Happiness, and Adversity to be Misery; though that is the School of Wisdom, and oftentimes the way to Eternal Happiness. — Various

He was like a drug and what did you do with drugs You pushed them as far away as possible. — Colleen Houck

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

No distinction is 'tween man and man,
But as his virtues add to him a glory
Or vices cloud him. — William Habington

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving. — Theodore Parker

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create. — Kim Edwards

Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell? — Fanny Fern

Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agendas he deals with — Charles Correa

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities. — Kate Millett