Margery Daw Quotes

#1. My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks.

Sherman Alexie

#2. Maybe the questions are more powerful than the answers.

Dan Brown

#3. I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

George Eliot

#5. Here we are. Maybe I should warn you before we enter ... (Asmodeus) (Jericho stepped past him and threw open the door.) Or maybe not. Let's just barge in and be surprised, shall we? (Asmodeus)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Roger Ascham

#7. I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.

Joel Osteen

#8. Emilia stared at me for three or four more seconds, then gave up on pumping me for information. "We should go," she decided with the force of a monarch declaring law. "I have Latin first period. The Aeneid waits for no man.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#9. Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

Ben Dreyfuss

#10. Poetry comes fine spun from a mind at peace.

Ovid

#11. Penelope!" Lady Needham stood just inside the door to the dining room, stick straight, her hands clenched in little fists, confusing the footmen, frozen in uncertainty, wondering if dinner should be served or not. "Thomas proposed!" "Yes. I was present for that bit," Penelope said.

Sarah MacLean

#12. None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

Mary Midgley