Mabes Quotes

#1. You groped my bum!"
"It was an accident."
"It was not. You haven't done anything accidental with that hand since you were twelve."
"Fifteen, Mabes. You make me sound like some kind of infant sex prodigy.

Lily Morton

#2. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Mark McCormack

#3. It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Christopher Columbus

#4. I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for - I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.

Eric Holder

#5. People are not like a business. You can't buy and sell them like so much property. You can't lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

Harold Robbins

#6. You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

Fred Rogers

#7. There is no God. Wait. I take that back, there is a God. There must be. The universe is just too perverse
there must be an idiosyncratic mind at the helm.

Elizabeth Kelly

#8. The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

Catherine Keener

#9. Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#10. The past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

Sara Zarr

#11. For the spectator does not see space, he sees the objects and events; he does not perceive the coordinates with the same cyclopean eye of the camera. With his entire body, desires, and fantasies, he perceives the existential dimensions by which the world is organized.

Mikel Dufrenne

#12. The sun isow behind the grey-green trees. And all the farm grows quiet by degrees. Among their many lessons this is best: the animals know when and how to rest!

William Nicholson

#13. There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

Wanda Jackson

#14. The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

Boris Trajkovski

#15. I may be a little fool,' retorted Miss Challoner, plucking up spirit, 'but at least I meant it for the best. While as for you, my lord, you meant nothing but wicked mischief right from the start.

Georgette Heyer