Marghanita Laski Quotes

#1. Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

Marian McPartland

#2. What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.

Marghanita Laski

#3. One can never be sure of the end, only of the means, and so we must be sure that the means are good.

Marghanita Laski

#4. God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#5. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I have to ask, sir ... Why does it have to be done like this?"
Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?"
"Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots."
"Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know.

Terry Pratchett

#7. You can learn a lot about government from donkey balls.

John Green

#8. God cannot be realized through intellect.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

Hans Kmoch

#10. Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me ...

Marghanita Laski

#11. I like the dynamic of PBS. They're very honest and authentic.

Eric Ripert

#12. I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

Annie Dillard

#13. Well, we all know how satisfying it is to recite the shortcomings and hollowness of others - especially those who have money and recognition where we have none. It is certainly more pleasurable than inspecting our own shortcomings.

Stephen Fry

#14. Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Alfredo Jaar

#15. The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done.

Marghanita Laski