Michelle Moran Quotes

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.

...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.

Things change, and not always for the better.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

I don't think unhappiness is fated.

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.