Top 61 Massie Quotes
#1. One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?-Massie Block
Lisi Harrison
#2. When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
Kathryn Harrison
#3. I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)
Lisi Harrison
#4. When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.
Lisi Harrison
#5. It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said.
That's true. William agreed.
Lisi Harrison
#6. Are you a wedgie?" Asked Massie. "No." "Then why are you all up in my butt?" Said Massie
Lisi Harrison
#7. Are you a female dog?"
"What?" Massie asked. "Why?"
"Because you are acting like a real bitch!
Lisi Harrison
#8. Claire, did I invite you to my barbeque?" Massie asked, her neck tilting to the right and her arms tightly crossed.
"Huh? No. I mean, I don't know," Claire said.
"Then why are you all up in my grill?" Massie said through her teeth.
Lisi Harrison
#9. Am I a vampire?" Massie asked.
"Huh?" Alicia asked.
"Then why are you keeping me in the dark?
Lisi Harrison
#10. Alicia, do I sell fertilizer?" Massie asked.
"No, why?" Alicia fell for Massie's setup.
"Then why do you think I give a crap?
Lisi Harrison
#11. Massie's frindship is something that has to be earned. Not because she's beautiful or popular but because she's loyal.
Lisi Harrison
#12. I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.
Thomas Massie
#13. Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.
Robert K. Massie
#14. My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, 'You can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you can't hate solar panels.'
Thomas Massie
#16. One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.
Robert K. Massie
#17. To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.
Bob Massie
#18. All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.
Allan Massie
#19. One frequent visitor, an opera singer, often rang up Rasputin simply to sing to him his favorite songs over the telephone. Taking the telephone, Rasputin danced around the room, holding the earpiece to his ear. At the table, Rasputin stroked the arms and hair of the women sitting next to him.
Robert K. Massie
#20. For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied.
Robert K. Massie
#21. William tapped Nicholas on the shoulder and said, My advice to you is more speeches and more parades.
Robert K. Massie
#22. I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that your happiness may be independent of all outside events.
Robert K. Massie
#23. (aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)
'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'
This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.
Elizabeth Massie
#25. We human beings often see only what is before our eyes. But God in His infinite justice searches the heart and our secret motives and manifests accordingly to us His mercy.
Robert K. Massie
#26. This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by the breeze, had exposed her ankles; he had proposed the following day.
Robert K. Massie
#27. There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.
Robert K. Massie
#28. I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.
Thomas Massie
#29. Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Allan Massie
#31. With tears in her eyes, Alexandra assured him that the husband and father was infinitely more precious to her than the tsar whose throne she had shared. Nicholas finally broke. Laying his head on his wife's breast, he sobbed like a child.
Robert K. Massie
#32. Gregory Rasputin, his bloodstream filled with poison, his body punctured by bullets, had died by drowning.
Robert K. Massie
#33. Some people think the big city's a scary place? That's nothing to compare to the backwoods.
Elizabeth Massie
#34. In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.
Thomas Massie
#36. They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.
Bob Massie
#37. A child can do nothing in his weakness. A man can do much.'
Robert K. Massie
#38. I'd say I'm a true conservative. Liberals have got a monopoly on protecting the environment, or all the cool technology, and I don't think we should cede that territory.
Thomas Massie
#39. In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
Robert K. Massie
#40. I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.
Thomas Massie
#41. The German leaders, said Winston Churchill, turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia.
Robert K. Massie
#43. To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.
Suzanne Massie
#45. We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Allan Massie
#46. a soldier in life, not a soldier with a gun, but a soldier for life.
Henry N. Massie
#48. She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.
Robert K. Massie
#49. Alone knows what times we are living in when undisguised selfishness stifles all feelings of conscience, duty, or even ordinary decency.
Robert K. Massie
#50. Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer
Allan Massie
#51. Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.
Suzanne Massie
#52. When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.
Suzanne Massie
#53. All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.
Suzanne Massie
#54. She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.
Robert K. Massie
#55. Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Allan Massie
#56. . . . people are only loaned to those who love them; they cannot be held, but can disappear in a moment without reason, without justice, without hope.
Suzanne Massie
#57. She sent me a bottle with a liquid composed of lemon juice, egg white and French brandy. In a few days my sunburn disappeared and since then I have always used this mixture. One
Robert K. Massie
#58. The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.
Robert K. Massie
#59. When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.
Suzanne Massie
#60. The Pretty Committee:
the only thing harder than
getting in, is staying in.
Lisi Harrison
#61. Later, concealment of pride in humility came to be recognized as a deliberate and useful tactic which Sophia - renamed Catherine - used when confronting crisis and danger. Threatened, she drew around herself a cloak of meekness, deference, and temporary submission.
Robert K. Massie
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