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Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals. — Mary E. Pearson

Children often sang, adults seldom. At what age did the singing stop? — Mary Jo Putney

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. — Mary Shelley

The calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

I've been taught that relationships are supposed to be built from trust, but we're a walking untruth - solely made from love. — Mary Elizabeth

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful. — Mary, Crown Princess Of Denmark

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton

I have always advised men to read. — Mary Harris Jones

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote. — Mary Wortley Montagu

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. — Mary Stewart

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. He was about to engage in some hellaciously naughty fornication. — Kendall Grey

Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself! — Mary Anne Radmacher

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God. — Mary Baker Eddy

Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent. — Mary Deal

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman? — Mary MacLane

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one. — Mary Bono

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee! — Charles Kingsley

Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God. — Mary Roach

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. — Mary Harris Jones

Your circumstances do not make you who you are! — Mary J. Blige

They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with. — Mary Wollstonecraft

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius. — Mary MacLane

I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two. — Mary Sage Nguyen

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words. — Mary Todd Lincoln

Let us ask Mary to help us fix our eyes intently on Jesus, to follow him always, even when this is demanding. — Pope Francis

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback. — Mary McCormack

Do you have anyone in mind, Hugo?" the duke asked. "Not really." Hugo sighed. "I have an army of female cousins and aunts who would be only too — Mary Balogh

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. — Mary Webb

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit. — Mary C. Jones

admit Mary into the new mysteries she had just — Anonymous

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies — Mary Renault

...love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy. — Hannah Mary Rothschild

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time. — Mary Anne Radmacher

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement. — Mary McGrory

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born — Mary Martin

Because my life without you would be
a place of parched and broken trees ... — Mary Oliver

That I love her. That I'm sorry. — Mary Kubica

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office. — Mary Fallin

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way. — Mary Daly

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness. — Mary Pipher

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it. — Mary Gaitskill

the Pierre, she pictured Charlotte's face at lunch — Mary Higgins Clark

We tend to love things that are left of center anyway. — Mary Steenburgen

Fear of difference is fear of life itself. — Mary Parker Follett

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place. — Mary Roach

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. — Mary Ann Shaffer

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another. — Mary Wortley Montagu

I would never disable spell-check. That would be hubris. Autocorrect I could do without. — Mary Norris

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. — Mary McCarthy

What is magic but what we don't yet understand — Mary E. Pearson

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness. — Mary McCarthy

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other? — Mary Rose O'Reilley

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever. — Mary McGrory

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be! — Mary Morrissey

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path — Mary Ann Shaffer

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts. — Mary Tyler Moore

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun! — Mary Wesley

My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top. — Kevin Spacey

The pain had no ebb or flow. It was a constant ever-increasing knell in my chest, timed to the beating of my broken heart. — Mary Lindsey

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Foget Murphy's Law. Nixe's Law: if you were waiting to make a left turn, there was always one oncoming fucktard who sailed through on the red. — Mary Hughes

And what has consciousness come to anyway, so far, that is better than these light-filled bodies? — Mary Oliver

people don't generally believe themselves to be evil. Just strong. And they think that the world owes them something — Mary Elizabeth Summer

The shenanigans of the kids, on and off the screen, they all fell in love with each other. — Mary Ellen Trainor

There's hope until the last second. — Mary Lindsey

I know she is of the Devil, for I cannot have my mind from her." From trial transcript of accuser of Mary Bliss Parsons. — Kathy-Ann Becker

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. — Maureen O'Hara

their son. Sandra did not know — Mary Higgins Clark

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way. — Mary E. Pearson

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel. — Mary Astor

It's not what one is, it's what one does with it. — Mary Renault

The main thing is just really to play my game ... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out. — Mary Pierce

All eternity is in the moment. — Mary Oliver

That's one of the things I like about Mary Lou. She's willing to believe the worst about anyone. — Janet Evanovich

Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love. — Mary Renault

Finding the right subject is the hardest part. — Mary Ellen Mark

I laughed at his honesty. I like people who say what they are thinking. No need to guess and try strain your nonexistent psychic abilities. — Mary Whitten

Evil's a thing of the mind. We humans got the full measure of it ourselves.
Is that right? Are you evil, Sarah Mary?
I ain't good. — Alden Bell

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured. — Mary Lawrence

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. — Mary Stewart

Big cities can have big hearts. — Mary Elise Monsell

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. — Mary McCarthy

... the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly - by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious. — Mary MacLane

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape. — Mary Tyler Moore

Male philosophers coin phrases
'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver

May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. — Mary Oliver

I'm anti-making new laws. I feel like assault is already against the law. — Mary Katharine Ham

Strew nuggets of affirmation and caring along your path today; you never know whose day you'll brighten. - Mary Kay Moody — Gary Chapman

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me. — Mary Carolyn Davies

'It's A Wonderful Life' still makes me cry happy tears, and my more recent favorite, 'Elf.' — Mary Page Keller

The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions - simple, basic, healthy, balanced. — Mary DeTurris Poust

What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven. — Mary Oliver

Being silent for long periods of time was a gift of mine. Most may not see it like that, but it actually takes a strong will to cultivate said talent. — Mary E. Twomey