Maygen Lacey Quotes & Sayings

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame. — Maureen Corrigan

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. — John McGahern

Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father. — Christopher Bollen

I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code. — Marissa Mayer

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more. — Shane Claiborne

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you. — Michael Nyman

It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over - at your age, too. — Lois McMaster Bujold

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for. — Josef Albers

Martha told me, I don't know how you're going to talk about romance in your book, but you're going to have to because its truly part of all our lives down there-and in a big way- because its an incredibly sensuous environment. Think of how many times you've fallen in love down there, and how many times people have fallen in love with you. Its a place where we shine. We're the happiest in our lives. We're vibrant. We're just so full of life, and not only does that put you in the mood for love, it sets you up for it. People are really drawn to people who are shining, who feel so happy where they are and who they are and what they're doing and who they're doing it with. — Martha Clark

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong. — Anna White

You transform all who are touched by you.
Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows
dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY. — Rumi

A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been a hell of a lot more productive for the community. But our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right to the people they have harmed. (I was lucky to get there on my own, with the help of the women I met.) Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in. — Piper Kerman

Now sadly there is attitude and no style. — Gregory David Roberts

Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat ... between the law of love and the law of hate. — Jose Marti

So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes. — L. Ron Hubbard