Maeve Brennan Quotes

#1. including Edna Millay, there were five such women: essayist Maeve Brennan, columnist Neith Boyce, novelist Edith Wharton, and social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Kate Bolick

#2. You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning. Its inconsistencies and anonymity, its seeming indifference to you and every other individual is really what makes it a safe haven for individuals everywhere (Maeve Brennan)

Elizabeth Winder

#3. As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.

Rick Poynor

#4. Heaven is within you.

Rhonda Byrne

#5. I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Siri Hustvedt

#6. The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

Doug Larson

#7. We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Isaiah Berlin

#8. The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.

Christos Yannaras

#9. He moved until he stood close enough to share secrets, to dance. To kiss.

Brigid Kemmerer

#10. Moskowitz became a world leader in the use of neuroplasticity for treating pain only after making some discoveries while treating himself. A

Norman Doidge

#11. A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#12. Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order ...

Thomas Paine

#13. All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.

Maeve Brennan

#14. From the box she removed a lightsaber. Finn eyed it uncertainly, but even in the poor light, Han recognized it immediately. Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. "Where'd you get that?" Han demanded. "Long story. A good one - for later.

Alan Dean Foster

#15. For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no desires. Statues stand for nothing but the goals of the rulers. ... The word of a god is, in truth, only the word of the one who erected his statue.

Kai Meyer

#16. Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Diane Wakoski

#17. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

Timothy Dwight V

#18. Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

Maeve Brennan