Sister Judith Martin Quotes & Sayings

She sat down next to him, took one of his cigarettes, listened to his apologies. He was distraught, of course: he was just the kind of idiot who could only understand what things meant by doing them first. — Nick Hornby

When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic. — Dean Cain

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln — Thom S. Rainer

How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile. — Rose Macaulay

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service. — James R Cook

Never been so intensely watched by a creature who would kill me if it got the chance. I stared at it, and I felt death staring back. A — Michelle Paver

Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind. — Robert Jastrow

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness. — R.C. Sproul

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. — Henry Reed

It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry — Merle Shain

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still. — Barbara Walters