Marquesa Quotes

#1. It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.

Thornton Wilder

#2. The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.

Thornton Wilder

#3. If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.

Duop Chak Wuol

#4. Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#5. I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard

#6. It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.

Norman Lock

#7. All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.

William Tyndale

#8. I'm very fast. I'm like Forest Gump, except ... I am not an idiot!

Michael Scott

#9. Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. 16, July 1763.

Samuel Johnson

#10. I think N.Y.C. definitely had something to do with my figuring out my life path.

T. Cooper

#11. There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer

Ansel Adams

#12. I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.

Robert Barry

#13. You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

John Abizaid

#14. It's notorious, ah you can't deny it, some people are lucky, born of a wet dream and dead before morning

Samuel Beckett

#15. I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

Nanao Sakaki

#17. I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Grace Abbott