Margery Williams Quotes

#1. [O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams

#2. See, the thing of it is, there's a lot of ugly people out there walking around but they don't know they're ugly because nobody actually tells them.

Jerry Seinfeld

#3. But the thing that ... that I touched ... " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know," said Herrick.

Margery Williams

#4. Prayer or worship does not therefore grant a free pass to selfishness ...

Ian-Anthony Finnimore

#5. My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

Glenn Tipton

#6. But the new priest in town, this Father Ybarra, who had come north to see if the missions should be closed down, absolutely forbade her to step foot inside Santa Teresa: "This place is not for women. If God had intended you to enter these precincts, he would have made women friars.

James A. Michener

#7. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

Margery Williams

#8. Information is not like money or any other commodity. The cracks that it can slip through are almost infinitely small, and it can be duplicated at almost zero cost. Soon information will be like air, like the weather, and as easy to control.

David Brin

#9. What's your happy place?"
"With you.

A Meredith Walters

#10. So long as people give priority to material values, then injustice, inequity, intolerance, and greed - all the outward manifestations of neglect of our inner values - will persist.

Dalai Lama XIV

#11. Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

Bill Gates

#12. When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

Margery Williams Bianco

#13. Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

Roland Allen

#14. Humble people ask for help.

Joyce Meyer

#15. It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#16. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it without these

Margery Williams

#17. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

Margery Williams

#18. Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.

Margery Williams

#19. Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

Margery Williams

#20. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

Margery Williams

#21. He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game.

Coco J. Ginger

#22. Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one?

Jill Telford

#23. Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom

Sunday Adelaja

#24. but behind her mask, she smiled flirtatiously at him, letting the warm sensations spread all through her, from her hand to her cheeks. The

Melanie Dickerson