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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear
  • Alone

• All in the waning light she stood, The star of perfect womanhood.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • She
  • Light
  • Perfect

• There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and savings compeller.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Thinking
  • Universe
  • Rest

• Film, you're kind of there with some people for two or three months or so unless it's a really huge picture, and then you go away, so you don't get quite as close to the people.

  

  Brad Leland
  • People
  • Picture

• But they say, 'It is not so much the Dreadnoughts we object to, it is pensions'. If they objected to pensions, why did they promise them? They won elections on the strength of their promises. It is true they never carried them out. Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Why
  • True
  • Pretty

• I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Weird

• Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Good
  • Today
  • Positive

• It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

  

  Homer
  • Poor
  • Despise
  • Guise

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

  

  Don Marquis