Proteus Mirabilis Quotes & Sayings

in the last few weeks. His face was ashen. — James Patterson

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness. — Philippa Gregory

Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor. — Lisa Cholodenko

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term — Emily Thorne

You do not comprehend. It is not the victim who concerns me so much. It is the effect on the character of the slayer."
"What about war?"
"In war you do not exercise the right of private judgement. That is what is so dangerous. Once a man is imbued with the idea that he knows who ought to be allowed to live and who ought not - then he is halfway to becoming the most dangerous killer there is - the arrogant killer who kills not for profit - but for an idea. He has usurped the functions of le bon Dieu. — Agatha Christie

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. — Delmore Schwartz

Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. Quite a lot of the differences that make us rich and poor are matters just of luck. To somehow revel in one's privilege would be a mistake. An even bigger mistake would be trying to convert that into a theory that the rich are so much more productive than many of us. — Amartya Sen

I haven't been able to reach her. And if I can't reach her, there's no way to keep her from being lost. — Rachel Cohn

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it. — Zig Ziglar

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes. — John Travolta

You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle — Tara Michener

I'm not quite sure which scout troop Heath belonged to, but it certainly wasn't the "I will totally honor my previous promise of no hanky-panky in the shower" troop. — Victoria Laurie

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to. — James C. Collins

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system. — Dora Russell

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius