Markgrafs Quotes & Sayings

My weakness for sympathizing with others has much to do with my status as a bastard, which is not to say that being a bastard naturally predisposes one to sympathy. Many bastards behave like bastards, and I credit my gentle mother with teaching me the idea that blurring the lines between us and them can be a worthy behavior. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die. — Eduardo Perez

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others. — Laozi

Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life. — Shekhar Kapur

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. — Frederic Lawrence Knowles

He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave. — Cormac McCarthy

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end. — John Shelby Spong

In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it. — Nick Murray

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. — Epicurus

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson. — Belva Plain

All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction... — John Julius Norwich

I've had four serious boyfriends in my life."
He growled.
"What is wrong?"
"Love is forever." He gave her a disgusted look. "You have no idea what real love is, Joy. — Laurann Dohner