Marie Quotes

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

We are always on the side of those who speak last.

I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

The world has no long injustices.

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

Death makes us all equal.

In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

It is freezing fit to split a stone.

The heart never becomes wrinkled.

There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.

I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death

A child is your heart walking around outside your body

Life happens. Love happens. You gotta take some chances.

When you start taking consistent action, you will see results.

Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

[God is] everything in the creative force.

As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.

I believe the world will fundamentally change the more women become economically empowered.

Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.

You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.

I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.

It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.

Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.

There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.

No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.

He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess (pg 59)

I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!

Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic