Margaret Anna Cusack Quotes

#1. The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

Saib Tabrizi

#2. The flat hand pats the chest repeatedly with an upwardstroking movement, representing happy feelings bubbling up.

Monta Z. Briant

#3. If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.

Confucius

#4. The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Adolf Loos

#5. Its the body grows older ...
The Mind grows wiser ... stronger ...

Michelle Geaney

#6. Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#7. Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten.

Thomas Muller

#8. Perhaps all miracles are just the immediate response of objective material reality to a pure, heart-felt thought of not wanting to inconvenience anyone. Maybe the Universe is serving the highest spiritual thought. Maybe the logic of magic is love.

Eve Jones

#9. I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

Khandi Alexander

#10. But then, no one really got her. No one in the world understood. Hell, if she was honest with herself, not even she understood.

Lacey Alexander

#11. It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny-and his was, of course, a lie.

Anne Rice

#12. It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

Myrtle Reed