Morganatic Quotes & Sayings

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume. — Richard Wurmbrand

The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course. — Meghan Daum

You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view. — Maggie Carey

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security. — B. Carroll Reece

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic. — Steve Jobs

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. — Mother Teresa

Life is exciting. It's more exciting if you can dance with joy alone. — Debasish Mridha

Hence that morganatic bond between the forces of the left and the forces of the right (a director of a big steel company, the co-owner of a great department store, a figure high in the Republican organization, come quickly to mind) which made confusing common cause in exculpating Hiss by defaming Chambers. — Whittaker Chambers

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him. — Joseph Addison

That was something, wasn't it? Trust was a good place to start. Especially after the kind of betrayal she'd been through. It made him want to prove he was the kind of man she deserved. The kind of man who'd love her for better or worse. The kind who was faithful and true. — Denise Hunter

The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets. — Napoleon Hill

I'm a total petrolhead. My three brothers and I used to ride scrambling bikes in the field near where we lived. We all liked cars. I've always loved the smell of an engine. — Jennifer Saunders

Ask for what you want. Believe that you deserve it, and then allow Life to give it to you. — Louise Hay

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history. — Dean Hamer

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. — Mark Twain

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. — Franz Kafka

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only. — Anselm Of Canterbury