Michele > Michele's Quotes

“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
― Sheila Hancock

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.”
― S. M. Stirling

“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
― Joyce Brothers

“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”
― Debbie Macomber

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?”
― Michael Dobbs

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown

“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”
― Louisa May Alcott, The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story

“Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans”
― John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
― Maria Edgeworth

“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
― Gerald Durrell

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.”
― Oswald Chambers