Mary Wardwell Quotes & Sayings

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with. — Haruki Murakami

...and in Wellington women in the bakery trade were able "to perform certain skilled operations for which they are particularly suited, at rate equivalent to two thirds the journeyman's rate". — Barbara Brookes

I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can anyone hinder me from going into exile with a smile? The master threatens to chain me: what say you? Chain me? My leg you will chain
yes, but not my will
no, not even Zeus can conquer that. — Epictetus

When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Faith is not blind if you consistently take the right actions to reveal it. — Charles F. Glassman

There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well. — Jean Rostand

She began to learn that nothing is dead, that there cannot be a physical abstraction, that nothing exists for the sake of the laws of its phenomena. — George MacDonald

I question what it would be like to just let someone in, to tell them all of your unforgivable truths and discover they still love you in return. I find myself utterly fascinated, awe-struck even, that there are people actually capable of truly loving someone without wondering when and how they will be betrayed. — L.B. Simmons

I suppose there won't be any Mexican food in the whites-only homeland,' I said.
Hm, I'd never thought of that possibility' Jerry said. He paused. 'They wouldn't be allowed to vote but they could cook and clean for us. Afterall, we're not extremists. — Louis Theroux

Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands. — Wislawa Szymborska

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits. — Benjamin Haydon