Archy Marshall Quotes

#1. There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

Christopher Peterson

#2. Life will break you, but God will mend you and make you stronger through it all.

Mandy Fender

#3. Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.

George Will

#4. The river is within us, the sea is all about us;

T. S. Eliot

#5. He is not angry now; knives are not angry. He is not tearful now; knives are not tearful. He is simply sharp and keen and inevitable.

Clive Barker

#6. To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

Booker T. Washington

#7. The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Bernanos

#8. That was the way most people were - stupid.

Jonathan Franzen

#9. Children, behold the Chimpanzee:
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone.

Oliver Herford