Miriam Love Quotes

#1. He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.

Joseph Conrad

#2. Things always work out if you don't send that e-mail. That's another great life lesson: I've sent enough e-mails of just "f - k you, f - k you, f - k you" and hit send. I've learned a lot from never being able to take back that I sent that e-mail.

John Feldmann

#3. As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.

Daniel Cawdry

#4. As far as celebrity, people don't stop me on the street and know who I am. It's more like, 'Doesn't she remind you of so-and-so's ex-girlfriend?' It's always somebody's ex-girlfriend. Somebody ex-girlfriend who's 'crazy.'

Michaela Watkins

#5. And then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's desire. What was troubling her this morning? Maybe Kate had reproached her on the phone for leaving me? How dare Kate.
Oh yeah? Go for it, my darling. Remind her of what she's missing. No, don't.

Mordecai Richler

#6. I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.

Morton Feldman

#7. Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry.

Dylan Thomas

#8. As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

Barney Frank

#9. You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Miriam Toews

#10. I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

John Carpenter

#11. I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.

Christopher Moore

#12. Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't assholes? I asked Wilson.
Because I would start to love them, he said.

Miriam Toews

#13. A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#14. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

Miriam Toews

#16. He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using.

Miriam Toews

#17. And I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?

Miriam Toews

#18. When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

Anne Hathaway

#19. And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

Mordecai Richler

#20. You can't force someone to love you. All you can do is be lovable, then hope for the best".

Miriam Polli

#21. Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?

Miriam Toews

#22. My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.

Miriam Toews

#23. I stood there, like always, like forever it seemed, in the middle of the road waiting for something or someone to retrieve me, God or a parent or my husband or any of those things or people or ideas or words that by their definition promised love.

Miriam Toews

#24. It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.

Rita Mae Brown

#25. We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

Donald Miller

#26. Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else.

Dean Koontz

#27. Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.

Miriam Toews

#28. The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is something that is very close to me.

Miriam Toews

#29. I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.

Miriam Toews

#30. A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!' So, it's a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer.

Miriam Toews

#31. People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals ... We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.

Miriam Makeba

#32. During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope material, finding comfort in the stability that's created from decay.

Miriam Toews

#33. If a man's kiss burns like fire, his love will be true, but if his kiss burns like ice...his love will bring pain and ruin.

Miriam Minger