Marwell Activity Quotes & Sayings

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress. — John McAfee

As long as you loved somebody, each kiss was hope and wonder, but it was also the potential for good-bye. — Martina Boone

Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them. — Martha Beck

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days. — Robert Anderson

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible. — Peter Heather

Even an acknowledgment from someone who hates him is better than having no one but strangers watch him perish. — Neal Shusterman

Thither daily, and oftentimes a day, generally after each meal, we saw our father retire, and "shut to the door"; and we children got to understand by a sort of spiritual instinct (for the thing was too sacred to be talked about) that prayers were being poured out there for us, as of old by the High Priest within the veil in the Most Holy Place. We occasionally heard the pathetic echoes of a trembling voice pleading as if for life, and we learned to slip out and in past that door on tiptoe, not to disturb the holy colloquy. — John G. Paton

Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault? — G.K. Chesterton

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious. — Malin Akerman

Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid. — Gustave De Molinari

X-awake. X-elegant. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates.
Find what you're afraid of most and go live there. — Chuck Palahniuk

Was I wilfully blind when I married Michael? Of course I was. I knew about his heart condition - everyone did. But I fell in love with him and decided it didn't matter. We were going to live for ever, somehow. Now I know that the fact that we had the same initials, were both expatriates, had gone to the same university, and were of medium build made the relationship highly determined. But I might have done the research and discovered his short life expectancy or talked to psychologists about the pain of grieving or read books about the sadness of widowhood. But I didn't do any of those things. I looked away from those sad certainties and pretended that they weren't there.
Love is blind, not, as in mythology, because Cupid's arrows are random but because, once struck by them, we are left blind. When we love someone, we see them as smarter, wittier, prettier, stronger than anyone else sees them. — Margaret Heffernan