Maureen Starkey Quotes

#1. If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate
a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#2. Fiction is a lie covering up a deep truth.

Maria Vargas Llosa

#3. What mattered was writing it: the act of words.

Rose Tremain

#4. I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Alan Zweibel

#5. Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Aristotle.

#6. No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

Maya Angelou

#7. The gym of life has a free membership. Build powerful life-muscles through family gatherings from hell. Do you really want to be a happy, peaceful blob?

Jane Siberry

#8. What could Maria call the time that opened ahead of her? The certainty of her hope? This rejuvenated air she was breathing? This incandescence, this bursting of a love at last without object?

Marguerite Duras

#9. If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you'll still see the pounds come off.

Misty May-Treanor

#10. And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily
open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.

Eugene H. Peterson

#11. Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

Peter Straub

#12. My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow ... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.

P. J. O'Rourke