Maria Quotes

I love to collect modern art.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

I'd like to have a family.

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.

Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

It seemed to me that I had come for the first time close to the soil of my native country, and could feel for the first time running in my veins Russia's vastness, her potency, her strength.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.

You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

No sense in talking tough unless you do it.

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.