Mary Eliza Mahoney Quotes

#1. Not the outcome any of us wanted.

Jeff Bezos

#2. In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

Ovid

#3. Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Voltaire

#4. My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

Alexander Calder

#5. 2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded. The myth of an America embracing the leftist social agenda collapsed.

Ben Shapiro

#6. Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. Your life - your very existence - is a light!

Seth Adam Smith

#8. The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. - SIDNEY HOOK

Joseph Heller

#9. Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it?

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. The better you get at being just a shoulder, the more unsexed you become.

Paul Monette

#11. When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

Thomas Paine

#12. Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives.

Alexandra Stoddard

#13. One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say

Voltaire

#14. Proportion which more or less exactly failed to please the eye.

Douglas Adams

#15. Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

Toni Morrison