Martine Murray Quotes

#1. Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.

Tony DiCicco

#3. Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.

George Carlin

#4. When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?

Martine Murray

#5. I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all.

Martine Murray

#6. You can't control everything, and matters of the heart are one of those things. The heart wants what the heart wants and you gotta let it have it. Everyone will get hurt at some point, but don't think about that. Think about now.

Emma Hart

#7. Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.

Derek Blasberg

#8. There's the waiting for something you don't know is coming. You don't even know what it is exactly, but you're hoping for it. You're imagining and living your life for it. That's the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.

Martine Murray

#9. But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours
that's another matter.

H.G.Wells

#10. A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear's journey from eye to shoe, air becoming blue, longing.

Martine Murray

#11. Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

Elizabeth Warren

#12. In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death.

Martine Murray

#13. But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.

Martine Murray

#14. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Emily Dickinson

#15. But underneath it there was not a sound, there was nothing that even whimpered or budged in our tunnel and it seemed Harry and me were tightly sealed inside something, like two secret letters lying next to each other in an envelope.

Martine Murray

#16. Nine equals eight ... just ask any math teacher. Well, make that a Tampa-St. Pete area math teacher, one who also likes baseball, and is a diehard Rays fan, and who knows that Joe Maddon deserves more than just the 2008 Manager of the Year Award.

Tucker Elliot

#17. Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.

Robert W. Hemphill

#18. I'm okay...in that kind of dead inside way

Liza Palmer

#19. The most precious things I have in my life were not bought, they were earned.

David Alejandro Fearnhead

#20. Love was life's secret purpose.

Martine Murray