Marwick Point Quotes & Sayings

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head. — Michel De Montaigne

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown. — Wendell Berry

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism. — Shane Claiborne

We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone else. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? — Rand Paul

Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a dream. Today is the day to make your mark - to make a difference. — Shawn Phillips

They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people. — Eddie Izzard

I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life. — Keiynan Lonsdale

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear. — Lena Dunham

Oh of course - how ridiculous of me!" cried Mrs. Wilkins, flushing scarlet. "It's because" - she floundered - "it's because the immortals somehow still seem alive, don't they - as if they were here, going to walk into the room in another minute - and one forgets they are dead. In fact one knows perfectly well that they're not dead - not nearly so dead as you and I even now," she assured — Elizabeth Von Arnim

ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance. — John Barrasso

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle. — John B. Hood

Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them. — Lon Milo DuQuette