Top 89 Mabel's Quotes

#1. The December days had a certain luminosity and sparkle, like frost on bare branches, alight in the morning just before it melts. Mabel

Eowyn Ivey

Mabel's Quotes #23242
#2. For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

Mabel Elsworth Todd

Mabel's Quotes #33150
#3. People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.

Mabel Seeley

Mabel's Quotes #55154
#4. Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

Mabel Robinson

Mabel's Quotes #83140
#5. I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

Mabel Cheung

Mabel's Quotes #85239
#6. ...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Mabel's Quotes #105496
#7. Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don't need anything else.

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #129036
#8. Figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

Mabel Seeley

Mabel's Quotes #141180
#9. Don't listen to him." Mabel waved a hand in disregard. "He's gone and lost his mind since the last time you paid us a visit. All his marbles fell out; rolled under the tables and counters, and he's too old to bend down and find them.

Ania Ahlborn

Mabel's Quotes #146612
#10. Life is an inside job and it is much easier if we let it go and get out of our own way!

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #148468
#11. The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

Mabel Collins

Mabel's Quotes #171293
#12. It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scored you clean so that you were left helpless and exposed, if you lived at all.

Eowyn Ivey

Mabel's Quotes #171371
#13. Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #171620
#14. I know I'm immature in some ways, but inside me there's a cranky old lady yelling at the damn kids to get off her lawn. She's been there awhile. I've decided to call her Mabel.

Lucy A. Snyder

Mabel's Quotes #211346
#15. Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

Mabel Hale

Mabel's Quotes #289519
#16. It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #299350
#17. Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #327475
#18. Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all arranged!

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #346364
#19. There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

Mabel Seeley

Mabel's Quotes #356348
#20. All right, all right! Party supplies are now off-limits, he said, snatching the party string and confetti from them. Dipper and Mabel couldn't help being in a good mood. They were looking forward

Walt Disney Company

Mabel's Quotes #381937
#21. She is the elephant's eyebrows," Evie whispered appreciatively. "Those jewels! How her neck must ache."
"That's why Bayer makes aspirin," Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialist wasn't immune to the dazzle of a movie star.

Libba Bray

Mabel's Quotes #390419
#22. What is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #453114
#23. He thought Mabel would cry, and he wanted to be anywhere else. It was wrong and cowardly, and he'd done it before
when Mabel lost the baby and shook with grief ... But it was like the need to take a breath. The urge was too strong, and without saying another word, Jack left the cabin.

Eowyn Ivey

Mabel's Quotes #496669
#24. He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.

Robert V. Bruce

Mabel's Quotes #509702
#25. Pity is something only weakness wants.

Mabel Seeley

Mabel's Quotes #520983
#26. Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?"
"What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said.
"Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.

Libba Bray

Mabel's Quotes #541388
#27. That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky ...

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #542868
#28. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death. Mabel

Colson Whitehead

Mabel's Quotes #569643
#29. I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share ...

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #577962
#30. Dead bodies are such trouble, Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.

Libba Bray

Mabel's Quotes #584627
#31. We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

Ellen DeGeneres

Mabel's Quotes #615231
#32. Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough.

Alex Hirsch

Mabel's Quotes #625810
#33. Code breaker Mabel Elliott's favorite quote was: It isn't life that matters! It's the courage we bring to it.

Hugh Walpole

Mabel's Quotes #656095
#34. Mabel was no longer sure of the child's age. She seemed both newly born and as old as the mountains, her eyes animated with unspoken thoughts, her face impassive. Here with the child in the trees, all things seemed possible and true.

Eowyn Ivey

Mabel's Quotes #725614
#35. She watched Mabel mix bread dough, and it was as if a songbird had landed on a bedroom windowsill.

Eowyn Ivey

Mabel's Quotes #728710
#36. Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.

Mabel Iam

Mabel's Quotes #731273
#37. What's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #738335
#38. God (Love) can heal anything. Your job is to give permission. It takes a lot
of trust.

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #758369
#39. My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.

Paul Smith

Mabel's Quotes #770877
#40. As Jack's eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, he saw the ground covered in white and, in the light of Garrett"s lantern, snowflakes spinning and falling.
He took hold of Mabel's hand, and when she turned to him, he saw in her eyes the joy and sorrow of a lifetime.
"It's snowing," she said.

Eowyn Ivey

Mabel's Quotes #798474
#41. It is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #803095
#42. Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. lord caversham. Hum! Which is Goring? Beautiful idiot, or the other thing? mabel chiltern.

Oscar Wilde

Mabel's Quotes #839582
#43. Mabel stops looking murderous and assumes an expression of severe truculence. How the hell, I imagine her thinking, am I supposed to catch things with this idiot in tow?

Helen Macdonald

Mabel's Quotes #1001442
#44. Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

Mabel Collins

Mabel's Quotes #1033484
#45. Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

Eowyn Ivey

Mabel's Quotes #1129639
#46. To hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance

Mabel Collins

Mabel's Quotes #1158099
#47. Our lives go by in our own minds. The war is inside our heads and only we can return the peace. It is essential to remember that in one sense we are always right. If we say, we can, we can. If we say we cannot, that's how it is, we cannot.

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #1160968
#48. "A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.

Mabel Cheung

Mabel's Quotes #1176004
#49. God waits for our permission and doesn't invade our privacy as we do with others.
Everybody has free choice.

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #1206572
#50. Love is beyond reason. Love is not measurable in words. Love cannot be partial; it cannot have owners. Love is essentially beyond definition or concept.

Mabel Iam

Mabel's Quotes #1229349
#51. Mabel, I manscape," he says in a very offended voice.

Lily Morton

Mabel's Quotes #1277446
#52. I found out that the sunshine in New Mexico could do almost anything with one: make one well if one felt ill, or change a dark mood and lighten it. It entered into one's deepest places and melted the thick, slow densities. It made one feel good. That is, alive.

Mabel Dodge Luhan

Mabel's Quotes #1278059
#53. Miss B. says, It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.

Ami McKay

Mabel's Quotes #1315540
#54. We all have an eraser incorporated within us, a delete key, but we forget how to use it. Ho'oponopono helps us to remember the power that we have to choose between erasing (letting go) or reacting, being happy or suffering. It is only a matter of choice in every moment of our lives.

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #1351724
#55. You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

Oscar Wilde

Mabel's Quotes #1363042
#56. In the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #1375077
#57. Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect.

Mabel Hale

Mabel's Quotes #1378523
#58. Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #1384574
#59. The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love.

Mabel Iam

Mabel's Quotes #1414563
#60. She leans over our table and turns the sign in the window so that it says CLOSED on the outside. But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel's place and mine, it says OPEN. If this were a short story, it would mean something.

Nina LaCour

Mabel's Quotes #1422292
#61. And now again the story of Tripoli changes.
But whatever the outcome, she will have still her limpid skies, her air like wine, and a climate where it is a sin to acknowledge an ache or a pain, old age or unhappiness.

Mabel Loomis Todd

Mabel's Quotes #1450571
#62. Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults, and so I'd like to try a book for children. And I tell them that when they have learned enough to write for an adult perhaps a child will listen to them.

Mabel Robinson

Mabel's Quotes #1475759
#63. Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #1486255
#64. Be yourself. Forget about whether you are male or female and just work hard to become a director who truly knows her craft and the direction she wants the film to go. People respect a director for her work regardless of her gender.

Mabel Cheung

Mabel's Quotes #1496682
#65. Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

Mabel Collins

Mabel's Quotes #1501691
#66. I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

Mabel Cheung

Mabel's Quotes #1506927
#67. I hope so," grumbled Ian. "I'm going to look for another one of 'em winged dogs for Mabel.

Ness Kingsley

Mabel's Quotes #1521923
#68. Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #1532146
#69. The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

Mabel Seeley

Mabel's Quotes #1538389
#70. Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.

Mabel Collins

Mabel's Quotes #1544444
#71. Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it?

Mabel Collins

Mabel's Quotes #1552217
#72. From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

Mabel Robinson

Mabel's Quotes #1570107
#73. Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #1585377
#74. For within you is the light of the world - the only light that can be shed upon the Path.

Mabel Collins

Mabel's Quotes #1591813
#75. The days diminished. Light lasted just six hours, and it was a feeble light. Mabel organized her hours into patterns - wash, mend, cook, wash, mend, cook - and tried not to imagine floating beneath the ice like a yellow leaf.

Eowyn Ivey

Mabel's Quotes #1640005
#76. Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #1646978
#77. From the elevator, Mabel watched the old woman's bare feet hobbling away, a trail of salt and the lace hem of her nightgown left in her wake like sea foam.

Libba Bray

Mabel's Quotes #1665652
#78. Mabel Elsworth Todd,The Thinking Body,

Alexander Lowen

Mabel's Quotes #1666485
#79. When you do what you love, there is nothing you need to worry about. Everything comes easily.

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #1667012
#80. On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

Katherine Paterson

Mabel's Quotes #1686226
#81. Many times happiness is just around the corner, on that corner that we never dare to turn.

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #1694773
#82. The various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.

Mabel Osgood Wright

Mabel's Quotes #1707628
#83. Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

Dolores Hitchens

Mabel's Quotes #1722690
#84. Oh, if I could choose," said Mabel, "of course I'd marry a brigand, and live in his mountain fastness, and be kind to his captives and help them to escape and-" "You'll be a real treasure to your husband." said Gerald.

E. Nesbit

Mabel's Quotes #1751119
#85. If you ask, flowers and plants will tell you many stories. God can talk through them, and if you ask them, they will raise their hands if they know they can help you with an illness.

Mabel Katz

Mabel's Quotes #1767149
#86. Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.

Mabel Cheung

Mabel's Quotes #1773984
#87. We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?

Eowyn Ivey

Mabel's Quotes #1778458
#88. We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

Mabel Robinson

Mabel's Quotes #1802354
#89. Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

Mabel Seeley

Mabel's Quotes #1806747

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