Mawatail Quotes & Sayings

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether. — Gloria Steinem

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line. — Stephen King

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others
existences which the spirit alone remembers, for matter has no memory for spiritual things. — Honore De Balzac

Some things you did were worth regretting; others not. — Richard Yates

Creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit. — Maude Meagher

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed. — Will Rogers

To give yourself over to an evil is, in some measure, to pretend that what you know is wrong is right, and then, to justify yourself, you must give yourself over to it all the more. — Anthony M. Esolen

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays. — C.S. Lewis

You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm — Jack London

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there. — Henry Vaughan

I think that any show that doesn't have huge ratings, that's what you're always up against. Meanwhile, conversations are ongoing. Everything is running the way that things usually run, in these types of situations. I guess we'll find out, like everybody else. But, we don't fret about it because, really, it's out of our control. We can only step back and do our work, and therein lies the serenity. We're hoping for the best and just doing what we love. — J.H. Wyman

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur. — Anne Lamott

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt. — Dwight Yoakam

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense. — Debra Winger