Marie Quotes

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

When you're hungry for success, don't let anyone feed you crap about slowing down.

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

My love for my country is my religion.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.

Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further (biological) evolution.

I am the most interesting book of all.

Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

in much knowledge there is also much grief.

If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.

When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.

Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

No vice is so bad as advice.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.