Margaret Culkin Banning Quotes

#1. Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are called weakness or power, wealth or poverty, human establishments appear at first glance to be based on piles of shifting sand.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#2. I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

Margaret Culkin Banning

#3. Best thing about doing Youtube as a job - the Youtube friends that I've met all around the world, that I never would have got the chance to meet without Youtube.

Tyler Oakley

#4. Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

Margaret Culkin Banning

#5. Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#6. I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#7. Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.

Bryant McGill

#8. Private security is a license to stalk.

Catherine Bybee

#9. It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.

Alan Lightman

#10. He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#11. Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#12. She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#13. You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Margaret Culkin Banning

#14. Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#15. The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Gene Hackman

#16. It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#17. When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity.

John H. Groberg

#18. We can sit by and hope the government will help, but they won't. If I can help support one or two children and another family supports one or two, then between us we can help them all.

Malala Yousafzai

#19. Trust in the process of life.

Truth Devour