Marjories Fund Quotes & Sayings

Within an hour, I had gone from anguish at the thought of losing him in Scotland, to a strong desire to bed him in the herbaceous borders, and from that to a pronounced urge to hit him on the head with an oar. Now I was back to tenderness. — Diana Gabaldon

Avoiding moments of disillusionment ...
I don't want dates on my calendar ...
If it comes to love.
I do not want to hear any more cute songs.
I do not want to see or send any flowers.
Tell love not to touch my door.
I'm not home.
And please don't come back tomorrow.
I'm on vacation, a vacation away from love.
Say goodbye for me.
Love knows my reasons ... — Jose N. Harris

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same. — Djuna Barnes

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come? — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Robin Wasserman is the author of several books, including 'Hacking Harvard,' 'Chasing Yesterday,' 'Seven Deadly Sins,' and her latest, 'Skinned.' — John Joseph Adams

I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line. — Sabirul Islam

Remember when Jesus was hanging out with that one dude that kept messing up his life with sin and Jesus was like "You are a dumb sinner, I am totally going to judge you!"

Yeah, me neither. I wonder sometimes if all Christians are really reading the same Bible. — Jonathan Welton

In the ten houses the police had scouted, I hadn't sensed anything more dangerous than a pot that prevents over-boiling. — N.E. Conneely

Two men, on opposite sides of the world, had made the same great discovery at the same time. — David Quammen

Why did people circle one another, consumed with either fear or envy, when all the they were fearing or envying was illusion? Why did they build psychological fortresses and barriers around themselves that would take a Ph.D. in safe-cracking to get through, which even they could not penetrate from the inside? And once again I compared European society with Aboriginal. The one so archetypally paranoid, grasping, destructive, the other so sane. I didn't want ever to leave this desert. I knew that I would forget. — Robyn Davidson

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things I believe can't all be true, though one of them must be. — Margaret Atwood

Believe in yourself, don't let people put you in a box and stay positive. — Maejor