Marlinda Boxley Quotes

#1. We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair.
-Piet Soron, 1847

Jesse Ball

#2. What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.

Jackie Kay

#3. Of all matches never was the like.

William Shakespeare

#4. But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

Peter Scott

#5. I believe if you want to build up to something, you have to start somewhere - you have to start today and maybe tomorrow won't exist.

Andrew Chan

#6. Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Bede Griffiths

#7. Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!

Raheel Farooq

#8. Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. New Rule: Coal companies have to stop calling coal "energy." That's like a lumber company calling wood "fire." Or Budweiser calling beer "urine." Okay, that one kind of makes sense.

Bill Maher

#10. Why have I
thought the dew
Ephemeral when I
Shall rest so short a time, myself,
On earth?

Adelaide Crapsey

#11. Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week.
Carl Costanza - Hot Six

Janet Evanovich