Mulock Quotes

#1. An author departs, he does not die.

Dinah Maria Mulock

#2. I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

Khaled Hosseini

#3. We need tolerant men. We must all give in a little.

William Mulock

#4. Kochu Maria, the vinegar-hearted, short-tempered, midget cook, were

Arundhati Roy

#5. There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.

Zephyr Teachout

#6. You, lass, have a self-image problem.
Well, that might be a little true, but she also had a mirror.

Cherise Sinclair

#7. It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality - no, let me say the unity of their home.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#8. A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.

William Mulock

#9. When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Tom Stoppard

#10. BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

William Feather

#11. I have seen many a face that was more good-looking - never one that looked half so good.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#12. The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#13. Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#16. The best of life is always ahead, always further along.

William Mulock

#17. God gets it. When you reach out to him, he's not looking for fancy words that would impress your English teacher. He sees your heart. A groan, a look, a sigh - he speaks every language. He understands.

Max Lucado

#18. Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

William Mulock

#19. If you don't want to change, how are you going to handle living with this limitation for the rest of your life?

Peter W. Murphy

#20. A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one;

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#21. Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,
But we forget not, never can forget.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#22. I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#23. It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Dinah Maria Mulock

#24. I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.

William Mulock

#25. Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your house.

Cher

#26. How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Dinah Maria Mulock

#27. I did my own thinking ... I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.

William Mulock

#28. The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#29. I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Pacino

#30. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Dinah Maria Mulock

#31. [It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik