Top 100 Marian Quotes
#1. Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling
for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.
Marian McPartland
#2. Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
Marian Keyes
#3. You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
Marian Keyes
#5. Sometimes the greatest evil comes in the most beautiful of packages.
Marian Erway
#7. I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.
Marian McPartland
#9. The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
Marian Wright Edelman
#10. The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
Marian Keyes
#11. If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect.
Marian Keyes
#12. We live in a culture that sells sex, promotes sex, and degrades sex, yet God calls His daughters to live as light in this darkness.
Marian Jordan Ellis
#13. Some people can make their ears move - it's their party trick. Don't feel bad if you can't do it. Just find yourself another party trick.
Marian Keyes
#14. Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
Marian Anderson
#15. Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity.
Marian Keyes
#17. And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.
Marian Keyes
#18. Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
Marian McPartland
#19. Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
Marian McPartland
#20. Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards.
(This Charming Man)
Marian Keyes
#21. She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven.
Marian Keyes
#22. There is a Marian "style" to the Church's work of evangelization.
Pope Francis
#23. I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.
Marian Keyes
#24. Dance till dawn be in the sky what care you and what care I................
Marian Phillips
#25. My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.
Marian Seldes
#26. Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.
Marian Keyes
#27. Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.
Marian Keyes
#28. Marian was right. I was the Wayward. It was my job to find what was lost.
Who was lost.
Kami Garcia
#29. No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.
Marian Keyes
#31. And love was always a beautiful thing, even when it wasn't returned.
Marian Tee
#32. We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
Marian Wright Edelman
#33. There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.
Marian Engel
#34. Hillary Clinton worked with Marian Wright Edelman in Children's Defense Fund. That's all you need to do know.
Rush Limbaugh
#35. Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
Marian Wright Edelman
#36. Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
Marian Keyes
#37. Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
Marian Wright Edelman
#39. Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
Marian Wright Edelman
#40. If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
Maeve Binchy
#41. Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.
Marian Keyes
#42. The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
Marian Burros
#43. I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.
Marian Keyes
#45. I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
Marian Wright Edelman
#46. You have the look of someone who'll die under general anaesthetic while having liposuction.
Marian Keyes
#47. It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting
that I discovered I was crying.
Marian Keyes
#48. Their world has changed overnight ... Even after the trial, after the verdict
whatever it might be
life would never be the same again.
That was the truth of murder.
Marian Babson
#49. The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
Marian Wright Edelman
#50. I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
Marian McPartland
#51. There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
Marian Wright Edelman
#53. I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.
Marian McPartland
#54. [Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].
Marian Wright Edelman
#55. Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Marian Wright Edelman
#56. Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
Marian Keyes
#57. For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
Marian Keyes
#58. sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It
Marian Keyes
#59. Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.
Marian Engel
#61. Running for and holding public office requires little more than making informed decisions based on the facts, your values, and getting to know your fellow citizens. You'll need the courage to be yourself, and a desire to do the right thing. Chances are you're doing that already. In
Marian Walsh
#62. However, often when fatal things are happening, you don't know at the time that they're fatal. You get an inkling that they're Not Good, that they Haven't Helped, but only the passage of time will reveal just how bad they are.
Marian Keyes
#63. If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.
Marian Diamond
#64. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
Marian Wright Edelman
#65. The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.
Marian Diamond
#66. Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
Marian Wright Edelman
#67. The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
Marian Wright Edelman
#69. It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.
Marian Wright Edelman
#70. Lucy shivered and went on again. 'This is an adventure,' she thought. 'You can't have an adventure if you stop in the middle.
Marian Cockrell
#71. Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
Marian Wright Edelman
#72. Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
Marian Wright Edelman
#73. I had thought the only person Neil loved was himself. That he probably shouted his own name when he was coming.
Marian Keyes
#74. So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children
as if justice were divisible.
Marian Wright Edelman
#75. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
Marian Anderson
#76. Todays uplifting phrase is love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only goning to get worse.
Marian Keyes
#77. Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.
Chungliang Al Huang
#78. Smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.
Marian Keyes
#81. the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.
Marian Engel
#83. A fighting man will die without something to fight for."
"And a woman?" I asked her.
She drew in a slow breath. "Everyone needs something - someone - to fight for, Marian.
A.C. Gaughen
#84. No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.
Marian Keyes
#85. I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)
Marian Keyes
#86. The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.
Marian Hooper Adams
#87. Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.
Marian Keyes
#88. You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.
Marian Keyes
#89. Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about to burst. Men are not sensible creatures.'
'Thank you,' said Robin.
Robin McKinley
#90. Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
Marian Keyes
#91. Only by digging deep down to the core of our true self can we come to a place of inner certainty. Our underlying values and priorities are our personal navigational stars on life's journey - essential tools to chart a life course that embraces what matters most to us.
Marian Deegan
#92. Fragrance should never be worn like a thick scented choker, where the scent emanates from the neck in strong blasts like a foghorn! Rather, it should sparkle like twinkling stars, where small bursts disperse here and there, they elude us, pique our curiosity and make us want more.
Marian Bendeth
#93. I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
Marian Wright Edelman
#95. Nkechi never tried to hide her bottom. She was proud of it. Fascinating to me. Irish girls' lives were a constant quest for bottom-disguising or bottom-reducing clothing tactics. We can learn much from other cultures.
Marian Keyes
#96. The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
Marian Wright Edelman
#97. Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As
Marian Keyes
#98. I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.
Marian Wright Edelman
#99. There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.
Marian Engel
#100. I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special.
Marian Keyes
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