It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.


Margaret Mahy

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
JENNIFER NIVEN
The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad.
JENNIFER NIVEN
You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
JENNIFER NEVIN
If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him...
JENNIFER NIVEN
Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad...
S. J. ROZAN
Silly. Dark isn’t scary. Dark is safe.”
“Why?”
“I live in the dark all the time...
KIERSTEN WHITE
I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegan...
JENNIFER NIVEN
We want to turn the lights on in some of those places that have been in the dark.
ANGIE CARTER
Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn...
PEDRO ALMODOVAR
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
ROD SERLING
There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.
LAUREN KATE
And then the lights came on and suddenly it was all as usual - I don't mean really as usual, but we ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
CHARLES DICKENS
The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
JENNIFER NIVEN
Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.
JENNIFER NIVEN
If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.
JENNIFER NIVEN
Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they neve...
COURTNEY M. PRIVETT
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all l...
BRAM STOKER
I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometime...
BRUNO MARS
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
JENNIFER NIVEN
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Every...
JENNIFER NIVEN
All characters and events in this book are made up. If some of them seem familiar, it’s because so...
STEPHEN MINKIN
It’s enough for her to know, sitting in there in the dark, that if she really wanted to she could ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.
JODI PICOULT
"As the colors of the rainbow are visible through dark clouds, lights from heaven show the way to pe...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
Darkness is a defining characteristic of Rotters. But it’s worthy to remember that darkness is jus...
DANIEL KRAUS
You find Latin girls who are as dark or darker than I am, so it wasn't about where they came from, ....
IMAN
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
YEHUDA AMICHAI
Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
MICHEL FABER
There are some areas that need to be improved, but there is certainly a core of talent that is equal...
AL SAUNDERS
Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
K. FLAY
The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
JENNIFER NIVEN
The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
As in all cases where people are involved in tragedies, there does seem to be some slowdown to other...
EUGENE TEMPEL
As in all cases where people are involved in tragedies, there does seem to be some slowdown to other...
EUGENE TEMPEL
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time,...
S.M. STIRLING
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
JODI PICOULT
Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a m...
MACDONALD HARRIS
There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mi...
DINA KUCERA
Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.
JENNIFER NIVEN
You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.
JENNIFER NIVEN
You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?
JENNIFER NIVEN
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed...
H.E. DAVEY
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark,...
PENN JILLETTE
The darker the chocolate is, the more antioxidants it contains. So when eaten in moderation - just a...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
Of course Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no nigh...
J.M. BARRIE
Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the so...
ARISTIDES ("THE JUST")
We make war that we may live in peace.
ARISTIDES ("THE JUST")
I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE
Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
MARGARET ATWOOD
She stubs out her cigarette in the brown glass ashtray, then settles herself against him, ear to his...
MARGARET ATWOOD
She’s the kind of woman who wants what she doesn’t have and gets what she wants and then despise...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Reading can be dangerous.
DIANE SETTERFIELD
When the asteroid hits the big ball of lights, flares will go off and all the other lights will go o...
JACK DEVENNEY
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
I really love this city. It’s so very beautiful. It’s so multidimensional.People say it has a da...
UMAIR NAEEM
Society's getting darker, so are the comics.
JASON BROWN
ubiquitous, adj.

When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�...
DAVID LEVITHAN
whose dark and icy depths were starting to seem as distant as the moon. Just as it had before he fac...
J.K. ROWLING
It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there ar...
NEIL GAIMAN
Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, t...
DAVID WALKER
Don’t try to make a joke just to make a joke. Sometimes, as human beings, we so want to fit in and...
SUSAN C. YOUNG
But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other ca...
JOSIAH ROYCE
When it comes to security, McDowell is at the top of the list of the worst places, just because the ...
SUSAN TAYLOR
There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I r...
PAUL THEROUX
It's a darker season. A lot of dark color.
AMY ASTLEY
The other stores don't seem to be hit like they are -- there was an attempted break just a week ago,...
JOSEPH MASSEY
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, s...
KARIN SLAUGHTER
Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS
We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS
It’s just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn’t it? It makes our relationships with people...
JOHN GROGAN
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,
JUDY BLUME
Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
JUDY BLUME
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the othe...
VERNON HOWARD
Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The longer you remain distant, the deeper, wider, and darker the chasm becomes making it all the mor...
KEN POIROT
There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things ...
HUBERT SELBY JR.
The phrase "in the dark," as I'm sure you know, can refer not only to one's shadowy surroundings, bu...
LEMONY SNICKET
There are no lights in the room of loneliness,so no one even sees you're there.
BIOLA KING
Monetary contractions are attractive as the key shocks in the 1929-1933 years, and in other severe d...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.
But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so bright...
PICO IYER
I have no place to go. If you can get something done for the people living in tents, at least give t...
HENRY MORGAN
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
You have all the facilities and none of the yard work. There are some really neat places down here a...
DUDLEY SCHULER
people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the ...
LAUREN OLIVER
And someone turns out the lights in the library, as if being in the dark will make them invisible, b...
EDMUND DE WAAL
We just try to update our stuff and make sure we have what people are looking for and can't really f...
BRITTANY WILLIS
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards th...
BEBE REXHA
You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.
TRUTH DEVOUR
If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...

More Margaret Mahy

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a stor...
MARGARET MAHY
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked...
MARGARET MAHY
It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.
MARGARET MAHY
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as...
MARGARET MAHY
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in...
MARGARET MAHY
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and ...
MARGARET MAHY
Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adve...
MARGARET MAHY
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is...
MARGARET MAHY
Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you...
MARGARET MAHY
For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often...
MARGARET MAHY
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of...
MARGARET MAHY
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in ...
MARGARET MAHY
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of co...
MARGARET MAHY
I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient f...
MARGARET MAHY
Somewhere int he flesh of the earth the dreadful earthquake shuddered, the tide walked to and fro on...
MARGARET MAHY
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as...
MARGARET MAHY
Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...
MARGARET CHO
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...
MARGARET MEAD
I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
MARGARET QUALLEY
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
MARGARET THATCHER
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway...
MARGARET THATCHER
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
MARGARET THATCHER
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
MARGARET THATCHER
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
MARGARET THATCHER
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it fu...
MARGARET THATCHER
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both ...
MARGARET THATCHER
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
MARGARET THATCHER
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing...
MARGARET THATCHER
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those ...
MARGARET CAVENDISH
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ...
MARGARET MEAD
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ...
MARGARET MEAD
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son...
MARGARET WALKER
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ...
MARGARET WALKER
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
MARGARET WALKER
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHER
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
MARGARET THATCHER
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
MARGARET ATWOOD
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they wa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
MARGARET SPELLINGS
There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
MARGARET SPELLINGS
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
MARGARET SPELLINGS
I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
MARGARET SPELLINGS
We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holdi...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
MARGARET SPELLINGS
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
MARGARET SPELLINGS
Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular...
MARGARET SPELLINGS
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r...
MARGARET WALKER
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
MARGARET ATWOOD
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
MARGARET THATCHER
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...
MARGARET ATWOOD
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
MARGARET THATCHER
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
MARGARET THATCHER
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
MARGARET ATWOOD
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,...
MARGARET ATWOOD
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
MARGARET ATWOOD
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL
It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
MARGARET MITCHELL
My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
MARGARET MITCHELL
So you are a vampire."

"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo...
MARGARET STOHL
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
MARGARET ATWOOD
When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,...
MARGARET CHAN
Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
MARGARET THATCHER
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
MARGARET ANDERSON
It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st...
MARGARET GELLER
You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev...
MARGARET WEIS
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and lea...
MARGARET THATCHER
This lady is not for turning.
MARGARET THATCHER
Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to Engla...
MARGARET ATWOOD
They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all...
MARGARET ATWOOD
No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
MARGARET THATCHER
I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and fla...
MARGARET ANDERSON
I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attrac...
MARGARET STOHL
There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hot...
MARGARET STOHL
The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
MARGARET THATCHER
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa...
MARGARET THATCHER
Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
MARGARET LINDSEY
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO
Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. ...
MARGARET THATCHER
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
MARGARET THATCHER
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in yo...
MARGARET THATCHER
Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...
MARGARET ATWOOD
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
MARGARET MEAD
If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not al...
MARGARET THATCHER
Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
MARGARET THATCHER
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all ...
MARGARET THATCHER
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
MARGARET VALOIS
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is t...
MARGARET MEAD
I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.
MARGARET MEAD
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilizati...
MARGARET MEAD
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
MARGARET MEAD
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
MARGARET THATCHER
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
MARGARET MEAD
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD
Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
MARGARET MEAD
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
MARGARET MEAD
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ...
MARGARET MEAD
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
MARGARET MEAD
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamu...
MARGARET MEAD
Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ...
MARGARET WEIS
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.
MARGARET THATCHER
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t...
MARGARET THATCHER
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marchin...
MARGARET THATCHER
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
MARGARET THATCHER
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER
Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER
Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...
MARGARET MEAD
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD
If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER
If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic...
MARGARET ATWOOD
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.
Aunt Grace leaned closer to the boar...
MARGARET STOHL
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD
But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...
MARGARET ATWOOD
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ...
MARGARET MEAD
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
MARGARET OLIPHANT
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHER
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHER
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD
Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
MARGARET FULLER
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER
Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi...
MARGARET BROWNLEY
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL