Sara Maitland Quotes

#1. A book about courage-a long string of tiny courageous steps. It is also about hope and faith and love. It is modest, careful and joyous. I do not see how any attentive reader could fail to be touched, awed and encouraged." Sara Maitland, Author

Alice Warrender

#2. Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.

Sara Maitland

#3. It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

Sara Maitland

#4. Doing things God's way is always a matter of the heart.

Elizabeth George

#5. My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

Sara Maitland

#6. People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#7. If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply "alone."

Sara Maitland

#8. Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Art is an artificial organization of experience ...

Sara Maitland

#10. We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

Sara Maitland

#11. The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.

Nina LaCour

#12. Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

Sara Maitland

#13. The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.

Emo Philips

#14. You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.

Sara Maitland

#15. Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.

Sara Maitland

#16. there is an interior dimension to silence, a sort of stillness of heart and mind which is not a void but a rich space.

Sara Maitland

#17. Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

Sara Maitland

#18. Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

Sara Maitland

#19. That Monaco crash was quite a big one - I pulled 33g when I hit the wall, which is a lot. It's a weird sensation - like all my skin and flesh was being pulled off my bones.

Jenson Button

#20. You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.

Sara Maitland

#21. I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

Kai Ryssdal

#22. Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction.
Owen believed in extinction but not evolution.
Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction.
Darwin believed in evolution and extinction.
All four of them believed in God.

Sara Maitland

#23. You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

Suzanne Collins