Don Marquis Quotes

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

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• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • May
  • Effort
  • Name

• My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Boss

• America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Last

• It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Struggle
  • Strange

• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • See
  • Mark

• I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Work
  • Find
  • Hiding

• I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

  

  Edith Cavell
  • Realize
  • Hatred
  • Patriotism

• Don't fight forces, use them.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Fight
  • Use
  • Forces

• The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Wine

• To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• '...reality’s always dull, you know...'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Reality

• Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Light

• I cannot control what the Republicans leak and what they are contending.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Control

• Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Home

• Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac made the knucklehead realize that it was okay to stay home and read a book. A fool at 40, a fool forever.

  

  Bevy Smith
  • Home
  • Book
  • Kids

• The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Charity
  • Next Time
  • Overhead

• Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

  

  David Blunkett
  • People
  • Society
  • Decision

• It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

  

  Norman Rush
  • Magic
  • Growing Up
  • Fantasy

• Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

  

  Don Marquis