Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) Quotes

Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again.

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• Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Power
  • Pain
  • Powerful

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• There is no bore like a clever bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Clever
  • Bore

• God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Pain
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Proud

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Learn

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Bad
  • Hope
  • Best

• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Dancing
  • Grandma

• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Used
  • Photograph

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Writing
  • Growing
  • Learning

• One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • People
  • Experience
  • You

• I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • May
  • American
  • Sick

• Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Desire

• The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Silence

• Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

  

  Peter R. Grant
  • Bird

• Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.

  

  Antoine-Marin Lemierre
  • Bird
  • Wings
  • Walks

• Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again.

  

  Marion Chesney
  • Nature
  • Waiting
  • Bird