Marieka Weathered Quotes & Sayings

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old. — Gautama Buddha

Imagination has a poor memory, it slinks away and gets blurry. Eyes remember much longer. — Kendare Blake

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. — Montesquieu

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak. — Colette

As long as you think like that, you'll be as brainless and helpless as the actual cuff of Astia. Use your will, Elli, for surely you have one. How else did you survive the torture that nearly killed you? How else did you make it to the woods? How else are you right here, after weeks of winter spent living in a cave, for stars' sake, looking stronger and healthier than I ever expected? No will, my arse. — Sarah Fine

even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible; our proofs and arguments must rest on generally accepted principles, as we said in the Topics, when speaking of converse with the multitude. — Aristotle.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. — H.L. Mencken

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. — Bodhidharma

When I later discovered that she (illustrator Faith Jaques) was a compulsive reader who loved to be alone and kept cats because they are the only pets that allow you to be both, my adoration of Jaques and her work could only increase. — Lucy Mangan

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there. — Matthew Fox

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. — Ronald Blythe

Want to see the rock? Want to lay on it naked, and feel me in you, beneath the pinwheel stars, while the grass sings our names? — Stephen King

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. — Glen Cook

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch. — Morrissey

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. — Carol Moseley Braun