Marjories Gems Quotes & Sayings

Warriors like Alexander the Great seek sovereignty over the soil; masters like Sri Yukteswar win a farther dominion - in men's souls. It — Paramahansa Yogananda

Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it. — Nina Sankovitch

There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner or later got noisy and violent and there was no handling them. Accordingly, the universities imposed a quota system on Irishman, and decreed that those admitted must be scattered around among non-compatriots: exclusively Irish halls of residence were banned. — Emily Hahn

Yes, I'm a druid priestess, but that doesn't mean I will turn you into a toad. Promise! — Lisa Veldkamp

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. — Alexander Pope

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money. — Eric Idle

Failure is the fog through which we glimpse triumph — Anonymous

It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does ? — Edward James Olmos

As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was. In any case, that democracy will not mean increased personal freedom. — Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none. — Franz Kafka

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not ... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. — John Henry Newman

The only paths you can't travel are the ones you block yourself--so don't let the fear of failure stop you from trying in the first place. — William Ritter

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all. — Charles Spurgeon

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet. — Terence McKenna

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time ... — William S. Burroughs