Martha Grimes Famous Quotes
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Martha Grimes Quotations
"To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."
Harry S Truman
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
Marquis de Sade
"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."
George Frost Kennan
"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."
Horace
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.
W Somerset Maugham
What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to God.
Kelly Jeppesen
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future."
Henry M Wriston