Mollie Beattie Quotes

#1. As long as we avoided the real subject, the spell could not be broken. We both slipped naturally into this kind of banter, and it became all the more powerful because neither of us abandoned the charade. We knew what we were doing, but at the same time we pretended not to.

Paul Auster

#2. Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world.

Lav Diaz

#3. Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.

John Frusciante

#4. Father Arnold finished the ceremony and asked if anybody had any final words for the dearly departed.
"Final words?" Chess asked, "I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop talking about this.

Sherman Alexie

#5. If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

Mollie Beattie

#6. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.

Dallas Willard

#8. The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again.

Billy Bragg

#9. Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

E. J. Gold

#10. Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society ... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel
an intense awareness of human loneliness.

Frank O'Connor

#11. Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead.

Nicholas Evans

#12. Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature.

Mollie Beattie

#13. A fool sings what he will, the master told his anxious princess, You must not take his word to heart. On the morrow he may remember another song and this one will never be heard again.

George R R Martin

#14. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

William O. Douglas

#15. What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

Mollie Beattie