Marijoy Currier Quotes

#1. You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here.

Simon Van Booy

#2. He rests in the graveyard of Ivry
a suburb that always
looks like the day
the carnival comes down.
And perhaps only I
still know
that he was alive.

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#3. And why is Grant so solemn today upon our great achievement, except he knows this unmeaning inhuman planet will need our warring imprint to give it value, and that our civil war, the devastating manufacture of the bones of our sons, is but a war after a war, a war before a war.

E.L. Doctorow

#4. I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer time to write that book, but it's not a race. That's another great thing about being a writer: you don't age out.

Debra Dean

#5. The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

John Stott

#6. Anger is a wound gone mad.

Vanna Bonta

#7. The difference between lie and lay. Lay is always passive. Even men used to say, I'd like to get laid. Though sometimes they said, I'd like to lay her. All this is pure speculation. I don't really know what men used to say. I had only their words for it.

Margaret Atwood

#8. In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

Katharine Graham

#9. I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.

Jack Kerouac

#10. When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body
it will all get conquered like this.

Ajahn Chah

#11. There are moments when I'm struck by a deep sense of wonder.

Nicholas Sparks

#12. I am infinitely more touched by your extreme generosity than with the inhumanity of that gentleman

Voltaire

#13. I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

Shelby Foote