Marylise Collection Quotes & Sayings

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering. — Paulo Coelho

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. — Elia Kazan

I have a good eye," said Benjamin. "Most of the time I can look at a person and see their whole life. Small things give them away. That farmer, for instance. I could tell by the way he tied his shoes that he'd never traveled more than twenty miles from his home, and it was unlikely that he'd follow us for long. And that Father John of yours. I knew he had something hidden in that sleeve. And I knew he'd use it on you. The only thing I didn't know was if you deserved it. — Hannah Tinti

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher. — Jim Parrack

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother. — Steven Morrissey

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced. — Homer

My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression. — Angela Davis

Maharet's skin, which had been so pale and almost luminous in life, so like the inner lining of a seashell. — Anne Rice