Top 15 Maria Boulding Quotes
#1. Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#3. I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.
Robyn Davidson
#5. The best that can happen to a girl, Claire, is to be a bit plain, like you. You think I'm being unkind, but I am telling you a truth. A plain girl has a longer time to herself, and when a man falls in love with her, he loves her for herself, for who she is.
Jane Smiley
#6. The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.
Jonathan Pryce
#7. Your child acts this way because she doesn't know how else to handle her difficult thoughts and feelings.
Jeffrey Bernstein
#9. That was the trouble with working the doors, too many crybabies; you were always in a 'no win' situation.
Stephen Richards
#10. OMG! Is this true? [Marcus Bachmann] has a Christian clinic where he de-programs gay boys & girls! I'm gonna strangle him with my Boa!
Cher
#11. As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, I do think that women, like elephants, remember everything and love peanuts.
Julie Klausner
#12. Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
Stephen King
#13. 'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
Thomas Sowell
#14. Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population.
Bryan Stevenson
#15. Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that.
Eva Green
