Marie Quotes
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.
You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat.
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.
It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.
Anytime you part with money, bless it and say - 'There's always more where that came from.'
The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.
My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.
I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.
Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.
In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.
Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.
Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance.
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.