Wit Margaret Edson Quotes & Sayings

Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Being Irish, I always had this love of words. — Kenneth Branagh

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China. — John Bruton

To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. At — J.K. Rowling

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. — William James

We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence. — C.S. Lewis

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country. — Alistair Darling

Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that's a wonderful thing. But it doesn't say anywhere in that passage that the people didn't still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there. — Alan Chambers

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace. — Henry David Thoreau

The only thing I can do is be right about what I say. Because I know I'm being watched. I understand what I'm facing. All I can do is put the work behind it. — Bernard Hopkins

If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill that sells for more than six times as much as another drug that does the same thing, made by the same company. — Robert Bazell