Top 100 Quotes About Marianne
#1. My feelings are not often shared, not often understood - Marianne Dashwood
Jane Austen
#2. I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
Marianne Faithfull
#3. Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
Marianne Dashwood
Jane Austen
#4. Good God! Willloughby, what is the meaning of this? -Marianne Dashwood
Jane Austen
#5. Don't think because I like to tease you that I don't take you seriously," he said in a quiet voice. "It is an honor to know what's in your heart, Marianne.
Julianne Donaldson
#6. The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.
Nina George
#7. Elinor, for shame!" said Marianne, "money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.
Jane Austen
#8. For years we've been treating men and women as though the only differences had to do with our sexual organs. The field of Gender-Specific Medicine was launched by cardiologist Marianne J. Legato, M.D. in 1997 when she recognized that a gender-neutral approach could be harmful to both men and women.
Jed Diamond
#9. [Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry]
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.
Marianne Moore
#10. That thing ruined my favorite T-shirt," complains Mario.
"Whatever." It's Marianne's voice. "You were just looking for a reason to get your shirt off." I try to look around for her, but my neck refuses.
Bill Blais
#11. The decision is not mine to make," Philip said. "I promised Meg to Miss Marianne for the duration of her visit. You will have to ask her.
Julianne Donaldson
#12. The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.
John Burnside
#13. There is not enough air in the room for Marianne and Elizabeth to share. They have learned this the hard way, but acceptance of the fact has made life easier. Now they see each other twice a year, for a weekend in the early summer and for the American holiday of Thanksgiving
Jessica Shattuck
#14. Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.
Jane Austen
#15. As the American poet, Marianne Moore, said: There is a great deal of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
William Strunk Jr.
#16. Marianne, how's your statistics?" "Math is my worst subject." "But you can program?" "Of course. I'm not illiterate.
Joe Haldeman
#17. nowhere her love was welcome, and through lack of use, its power had cooled and changed into hatred. It was easier to hate than to love when your love wasn't wanted. Marianne
Nina George
#18. I promise, Marianne Daventry," he began.
"I promise that I do not love you for your money
Julianne Donaldson
#19. Why don't you like getting close?' Marianne insisted. 'Is it because you might get hurt?'
Owen shook his head. He still couldn't look at her. 'It's because it's never permanent. Everything dies. Everything gets destroyed. Even love. So we just make the best of it-get our pleasure where we can.
Andy Lane
#20. And yet two thousand a year is a very moderate income," said Marianne. "A family cannot well be maintained on a smaller. I am sure I am not extravagant in my demands. A proper establishment of servants, a carriage, perhaps two, and hunters, cannot be supported on less.
Jane Austen
#21. This will mark the third time that an arrow has entered my chest. The first time brought me to Marianne Engel. The second time separated us.
The third time will reunite us.
Andrew Davidson
#22. I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning. ~ Marianne Dashwood
Jane Austen
#23. And is that all you can say for him?" cried Marianne, indignantly. "But what are his manners on more intimate acquaintance? What his pursuits, his talents, and genius?" Sir John was rather puzzled.
Jane Austen
#24. With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.
Andrew Davidson
#25. Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path ... Male strength
the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.
Emma Thompson
#26. I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought
Jane Lynch
#27. Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you'll just let it happen. (Marianne)
Laurell K. Hamilton
#28. For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people's most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.
Jessica Shattuck
#29. Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her.
Angela Carter
#30. I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.
Rufus Wainwright
#32. There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
Marianne Faithfull
#33. Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
Jane Austen
#34. Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?
Joyce Carol Oates
#35. Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.
Emma Thompson
#36. Remember what I told you about family secrets." People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman's rocking didn't change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.
B. J. Daniels
#37. I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two invalid children - who've never met in the real world - who get trapped in a shared dreamscape when they fall asleep. It's called 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr.
Stephen Cole
#38. A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
Jane Austen
#39. Me!" returned Elinor in some confusion; "indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell."
"Nor I," answered Marianne with energy, "our situations then are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing." (27.17)
Jane Austen
#40. They set off. Marianne had at first the advantage, but a false step brought her suddenly to the ground; and Margaret, unable to stop herself to assist her, was involuntarily hurried along, and reached the bottom in safety.
Jane Austen
#41. I said to myself, Marianne. Next time you're down on your knees, why don't you just stay there?
Marianne Williamson
#42. I don't think I have ever met a lady like you, Miss Marianne Daventry, and I would feel very sorry to forget anything about this evening
Julianne Donaldson
#43. From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
Jane Austen
#44. the stern of my ship." "Indeed." Marianne said with a slight smile. Noah methodically poured gun powder into the barrel, then rammed the bullet inside with a ramrod. "Mr. Drummond, surely you know that bringing him here endangers my entire family.
MaryLu Tyndall
#45. Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Crystal Paine
#46. The child exasperated Marianne with her endless obsession with possession. She seemed to have absorbed the national sense of aggrievement, as if she, personally, were the victim of some great unfairness.
Jessica Shattuck
#48. Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion ...
Jane Austen
#49. Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
Donald Hall
#50. Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.
Jessica Day George
#51. And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.
Jane Austen
#52. I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!
Jane Austen
#53. Marianne laughed. But you can't disappoint me! I don't love you.
Joyce Carol Oates
#54. And it began when you first took a risk, failed and realized that you'd survived the failure. With that knowledge, you could risk anything. Marianne
Nina George
#55. Marianne's mouth was open in surprise, but Poppy looked murderous. She clutched her reticule as though it contained a weapon. Realizing that it probably held some very sharp knitting needles, Christian reflected that it did.
Jessica Day George
#56. Yes, well, there's something to be said for damsels who need rescuing. Thomas's gaze strayed back to Marianne. She would never need rescuing. And wasn't there something to be said for that as well?
Victoria Alexander
#57. Marianne was vexed at it for her sister's sake, and turned her eyes towards Elinor to see how she bore these attacks, with an earnestness which gave Elinor far more pain than could arise from such common-place raillery as Mrs. Jennings's.
Jane Austen
#58. If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
Marianne Moore
#59. Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
Marianne Williamson
#62. We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
Marianne Williamson
#63. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
Marianne Williamson
#64. No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
Marianne Williamson
#65. I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
Marianne Williamson
#66. It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.
Marianne Williamson
#67. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
Marianne Williamson
#68. Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
Marianne Williamson
#69. The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.
Marianne Williamson
#71. The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.
Marianne Williamson
#72. At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
Marianne Williamson
#73. A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
Marianne Williamson
#75. Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Marianne Williamson
#77. are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be,
Marianne Williamson
#78. Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.
Marianne Faithfull
#79. I do believe 50 is the new 40 and 60 is the new 50. Hell, maybe 60 can be the new 40, I don't know. I believe that when we give ourselves permission, we can live with an excitement and heat and passion that most women in previous generations were unable to attain.
Marianne Williamson
#80. We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.
Marianne Williamson
#81. My heart would obey me, I was certain. I simply needed to be strict with it.
Julianne Donaldson
#83. To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.
Marianne Williamson
#84. The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
Marianne Williamson
#85. I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.
Marianne Williamson
#86. I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
Marianne Williamson
#87. Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)
Marianne Williamson
#88. Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
Marianne Williamson
#89. So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
Marianne Williamson
#90. The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.
Marianne Williamson
#91. The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.
Marianne Williamson
#92. whatever it is you choose to think, your subconscious mind takes it very seriously and your experience will reflect your thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#94. Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.
Marianne Williamson
#95. A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing - the wings of my newborn self.
Marianne Williamson
#96. I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
Marianne Williamson
#97. I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.
Marianne Williamson
#98. The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.
Marianne Williamson
#99. Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson
#100. Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Marianne Williamson
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