Praemium Magnus Quotes & Sayings

I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world, — Malala Yousafzai

It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it. — Michael Palmer

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. — David Mamet

Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world ... As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story ... It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along. — Martha Beck

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. — Simon Newcomb

Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid."
"I don't - "
"I cared about you too much," said Dumbledore simply. "I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.
"Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have - and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined - not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands. — J.K. Rowling

What is government if word's have no meaning. — Jared Lee Loughner

You play with your toys and your money and all your fine things, and you forget. You forget and that's why you're happy. — Anne Rice

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor. — Rebecca Stead