Myrle Quotes & Sayings

[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking. — Paul Bowles

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice. — Michelle Pfeiffer

They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office. — Tom Rachman

Real reason he'd gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time. — Stephen King

The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel. — Dalai Lama

In April 1933, Willie's mother, Myrle, gave birth to him in a manger somewhere along the old highway between Waco & Dallas. There were angels in attendance that night. Some of them, no doubt, flying too close to the ground: — Kinky Friedman

They are our brothers, these freedom fighters ... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong. — Ronald Reagan

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. — Henrik Ibsen

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing. — Asvaghosa

I can't think of myself, my body, sometimes, without seeing the skeleton: how I must appear to an electron. A cradle of life, made of bones; and within, hazards, warped proteins, bad crystals jagged as glass. — Margaret Atwood

Will you be my wife forever? Here and now and beyond all of this? — Julianna Baggott

An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. — Julia Cameron

It was too late to buy beer but thank God there's no curfew on condoms. — Beth Myrle Rice

One thing that pisses me off royally is hearing drug companies denounced as the devil. I don't like giant corporations (or, in the words of Spalding Gray, "the big indifferent machine") any more than anyone else, but I really don't like wanting to kill myself. A person who denounces psychopharmaceuticals based on a political agenda is a person who has never lain crumpled in a ball in the closet, sobbing uncontrollably, face covered in Sharpie, throat raw from induced vomiting. Accordingly, that person should be thankful and shut the hell up. — Stacy Pershall

People don't get me
it's more rule than exception
God bless exceptions — Beth Myrle Rice

Honesty scares quite a lot of people. — Beth Myrle Rice

Is it possible, after all, that in spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of commonplaceness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim, can not resolve? — Herman Melville

Earlier on I said something so lucidly philosophical that my oratory rambled non-stop right into expressing amazement I had just said that. — Beth Myrle Rice

What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice. — Donald Driver

Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body — Charlotte Perkins Gilman