Marilyn Turk Quotes & Sayings

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry . — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches. — Famke Janssen

He was drawn to painful thoughts, fear, darkness. And Reyna's darkest, most painful memory was San Juan. Her biggest fear? Coming back here. — Rick Riordan

Young People! Do not gloat about your youth, because you have a long and treacherous path to negotiate before you reach the truly lovely part of your life. Your fisrt decades are one long, tiring, demeaning struggle for at least a short turn at the control level. Every day you get savaged by your own wishes. When you finally calm down and accept your lot, you are middle-aged, and happiness most definitely lies more closely ahead, but you still have a few years to go, passing through most arduous longing and regret. — Irene Dische

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood. — Charles Fletcher Dole

Desire, hot and thick, consumed him. Lily. He wanted to hold her, to simply savor her scent of roses. — Donna Grant

A man who is truly Christian, as we have already seen, never objects to being humbled. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

If it makes you feel any better we will be happy to attack a country that had nothing to do with it. — Bill Maher

Hell, yes," Dev says, sitting up now. "Don't get me wrong - we're totally going to make the beast with two backs tonight. But if we do it right, it's going to feel like holding hands. — David Levithan

The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place. — Hafez