Matoury Mairie Quotes & Sayings

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself. — St. Catherine Of Siena

Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one. — Claudia Emerson

A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being. — F. F. Bosworth

If you're going through a dark time ... don't ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again. — Lady Gaga

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. — Keith Haring

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill. — David Horowitz

With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing. — Jared Diamond

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper. — Wilkie Collins

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. — Nikola Tesla

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. — Henry Louis Gates

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others. — Viktor E. Frankl

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important. — Richard Donner