Majella Murphy Quotes

#1. None of us plan
or intend
to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.

Andy Stanley

#2. I'm talking about the language of flowers. It's from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#3. We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

Al Franken

#5. I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Kevin Hart

#6. You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

Michael Eisner

#7. Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#9. The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

John Muir

#10. I exist to magnify Jesus Christ. That is, I am on this planet for one ultimate reason: to do whatever I can to make Jesus Christ known and treasured - a knowing and a treasuring that accords with his infinite beauty and immeasurable worth.

John Piper

#11. Toward me. I looked angry, and I knew it. Randy was

Nicholas Sparks

#12. Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.

Josephine Bakhita

#13. Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney.

George Harris

#14. The victory of the Corleone Family was complete. During that same twenty-four-hour period Clemenza and Lampone turned loose their regimes and punished the infiltrators of the Corleone domains.

Mario Puzo

#15. I thought of my often-dream where Time poured the fishes into the sky and the sky was full of star fish; stella maris of the upper air.

Jeanette Winterson