Miss Melly Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I'm sorry for you - sorry to see you throwing away happiness with both hands and reaching out for something that would never make you happy. I'm sorry because you are such a fool you don't know there can't ever be happiness except when like mates like. If I were dead, if Miss Melly were dead and you had your precious honorable lover, do you think you'd be happy with him? Hell, no! You would never know him, never know what he was thinking about, never understand him any more than you understand music and poetry and books or anything that isn't dollars and cents. Whereas, we, dear wife of my bosom, could have been perfectly happy if you had ever given us half a chance, for we are so much alike. We are both scoundrels, Scarlett, and nothing is beyond us when we want something. We could have been happy, for I loved you and I know you, Scarlett, down to your bones, in a way that Ashley could never know you. And he would despise you if he did know... — Margaret Mitchell

it may seem so easy to take it easy but, it is never so easy to take it easy — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Gratitude is the root of all virtue — Ronald Rolheiser

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure ... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one ... — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Family is the most important thing in the world. — Diana Princess Of Wales

Perception is projection — Gerad Kite

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. — Les Brown

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. — Craig Venter

But to navigate transformation - genuine transformation that's true to exactly who we are - we must become mindful and attain a clear sense of self. We must take time to be alone with our thoughts and feelings. We must dive into daily practices that help us gather insight, wisdom, and clarity. — Jennifer Grace

As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by GOD. — Eugene H. Peterson

A word that turns up in TNR's literary pieces is "tasteless. " They use it in the same way you might reprove a toilet joke at the dinner table or around relatives. But with them it takes on moral weight. It's a very damaging mistake: the idea that sniffing out the tasteless is the same as taste itself. It confuses censoriousness with a faculty of judgment that links the aesthetic to the moral sense. — N+ 1 Magazine

An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose. — Carl Henegan

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. — Robert Pinsky

I could kiss you in the rain forever
Turn all your pain to pleasure
Fill up all your days with sunlight
Make the passion last every night
Give you my every possesion
Make you my only obsession
Climb up to the sky and pull down all the stars above
But I could never love you enough — Chely Wright

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life. — Margaret Fuller

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones. — Deirdre O'Kane