Ita Wegman Quotes

#1. Marley was dead: to begin with.

Charles Dickens

#2. Knowing the truth about what you believe and longing for the time before you knew it are not mutually exclusive states of being.

Erin Keane

#3. Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

Marya Mannes

#4. It was in the waiting that a person experienced too much of himself. Memories, doubts, regrets, anxieties, the whole range of possibilities the future contained
they all swirled together in the mind like a soup.

Justin Cronin

#5. Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories.

Robert Galbraith

#6. Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

Veronica Roth

#7. Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Alexander Herzen

#8. Do not put up with mean people who discourage your laughter.

Jim Dines

#9. The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

Jim Rohn

#10. Caravaggio was constantly diverted by the human element during burglaries. Breaking into a house during Christmas, he would become annoyed if the Advent calendar had not been opened up to the date to which it should have been.

Michael Ondaatje

#11. Spain is an important historical ally of the United States, and if confirmed, I will add to our more than 200 years of diplomatic history to further our shared interests.

James Costos

#12. But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ...

Ann Radcliffe

#13. I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#14. This loneliness won't leave me alone.

Otis Redding

#15. It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.

Don DeLillo