Marginal World Quotes

#1. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax.

Monica Crowley

#3. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.

Adi Alsaid

#4. Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

Marla Sokoloff

#5. Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose.'

Elmore Leonard

#6. The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

Diane Lane

#7. I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!
For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!

Marguerite Wilkinson

#8. You should enjoy the present moment because this is all you have. Create for tomorrow, but live in and for today.

Robert Anthony

#9. When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

Demetri Martin

#10. We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.

Richard Lamm

#11. As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.

Pankaj Mishra

#12. Understanding does not create emotional change.

Avy Joseph

#13. No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.

Publilius Syrus

#14. My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.

David Edelstein

#15. One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

Martin Amis

#16. The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

Luis Gonzalez

#17. Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

Timothy Keller