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we shall in the next section examine the will to use them, which is love.
~ M. Scott Peck
Therefore, after analyzing each of these tools, we shall in the next section examine the will to use them, which is love.
~ M. Scott Peck
Aunt Grace had once told me that we can romanticize the unknown far too easily. It is much harder but more satisfying to assign wonder to what we were familiar with.
~ M.J. Rose
The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.
~ MacDonald George
A man's lip is not like the paw of Attila's horse, which sterilized the ground which it struck; it is just the opposite. ?Chapter
~ Machado de Assis
My living lords, there is nothing so immeasurable as the disdain of the dead.
~ Machado de Assis
ei-lo aí fica privado da estima dos graves e do amor dos frívolos, que são as duas colunas máximas da opinião.
~ Machado de Assis
It was the embryo, lost before that point at which Laplace can be distinguished from a turtle.
~ Machado de Assis
Esse tinha muita austeridade e pureza; tais dotes, contudo, não realçavam um espírito superior, apenas compensavam um espírito medíocre.
~ Machado de Assis
This is the immoral reflection I intended to make, which is more obscure than immoral, because one does not quite understand what I mean.
~ Machado de Assis
frugality might indicate a certain tendency toward asceticism, which was the complete expression of human foolishness.
~ Machado de Assis
Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.
~ Machiavelli Niccolò
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The truly great books are flawed: The Brothers Karamazov is unwieldy in structure; a present-day editor would probably want to cut the Grand Inquisitor scene because it isn't necessary to the plot. For me The Brothers Karamazov is one of the greatest novels ever written, and this is perhaps because of, rather than in spite of, its human faults.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Just a moment, Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Forgive me, I'm preaching. I've spent so much of my life giving sermons that it's a habit I find hard to break.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Anaral shook her head. "It is not in the goddess's nature to destroy. She sends blessings. It is us, it is people who are destructive." She left the tent abruptly.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Questions, questions."Gaudior stomped one silver hoof. "I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I enjoy cooking. It's therapy for me. Louise's therapy is her rose garden. You may note, Polly, that we don't have any roses.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
A silly idea about a book of blessings couldn't really work. Not seriously.
~ Maeve Binchy
Winnie's silver-and-black jacket might be too dressy. She wore a
~ Maeve Binchy
open, the light streaming in in a harsh triangle, Henry's face was
~ Maeve Binchy
have to stay in a hotel once you book in. I don't think you can leave at teatime and say that's enough. Maybe they didn't do it at all, maybe they only held hands and necked.
~ Maeve Binchy