Mary Doria Russell Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create.
Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm)
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm)
Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
He ain't big and he ain't strong, but that boy's got a by-God streak of fight in him. And he was going to need it.
Bein' born is craps," he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. "How we live is poker.
You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.
Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being.
I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary." ~Renzo Leoni
...[Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.
Horses are mirrors. They'll show you back whatever you show them. Watch a man with a horse, and you'll see what's inside his own self.
Until you've been there, you can't know what it's like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago.
Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.
And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I'd choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son.
The answer was clear, though he half-expected his hand to shrivel and turn black when he voted for a Republican.
If anything could prove the existence of the soul, he thought, it was the utter emptiness of a corpse.
Maybe poetry is the only way we can get near the truth of God. ... And when the metaphors fail, we think it's God who's failed us!
You've seen what," Emilio conceded, "but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it - in the meaning.
Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am," he told Morgan, "an unhappy man -
Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher!
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
Not just survival but a good life, full of learning, full of love, Emilio thought, and took a step closer to the death he felt inside himself. He
Guess - You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well," said Morgan, "I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness." The
No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.
I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.
Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)
You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness.
The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.