Marlena Shaw Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I was so not a wilting flower. I'd let a man pick me up and carry me because I couldn't handle the price of using magic when I was dead. Again. — Devon Monk

Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool. — Ravi Zacharias

Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

But the sort of - this confusion of permissions, or this idea that pleasure and comfort are the, are really the ultimate goal and meaning of life. I think we're starting to see a generation die ... on the toxicity of that idea. — David Lipsky

One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism. — Yuri Andropov

Well, where did it come from?" I asked. "How did I get it?"
"How do we get most things?" he answered.
"We buy them? — David Sedaris

Myth safeguards and enforces morality, as Malinowski proclaimed, and if there are no myths there will be no morality. — Rollo May

You force all things to flow towards you and into you, so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts of your love. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want a decision, go to the point of danger. — James M. Gavin

As I have said, the Bible consistently changes the questions we bring to the problem of pain. It rarely, or ambiguously, answers the backward-looking question "Why?" Instead, it raises the very different, forward-looking question, "To what end?"We are not put on earth merely to satisfy our desires, to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.We are here to be changed, to be made more like God in order to prepare us for a lifetime with him. And that process may be served by the mysterious pattern of all creation: pleasure sometimes emerges against a background of pain, evil may be transformed into good, and suffering may produce something of value. — Philip Yancey

Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state. — Michele Bernstein

Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected. — Gerrit Smith

The most favorite boy's name is James; the least favorite is Gzxkls. — Jasper Fforde