Margaret Landon Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are”
-- Margaret Landon

#People Quotes #World Quotes

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
-- Margaret Landon

Source : Margaret Landon (2016). “Anna and the King of Siam”, p.19, Open Road Media

#Heart Quotes #Secret Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I gaze upon the thousand stars That fill the midnight sky; And wish, so passionately wish, A light like theirs on high. I have such eagerness of hope To benefit my kind; I feel as if immortal power Were given to my mind.”
-- Margaret Landon

#Stars Quotes #Light Quotes #Sky Quotes

“To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.”
-- Margaret Landon

#Ignorance Quotes #Order Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.”
-- Margaret Landon

Source : Margaret Landon (1945). “Anna and the King of Siam”

#Selfishness Quotes #Levels Quotes #Selflessness Quotes

“When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.”
-- Margaret Landon

Source : "Fictional character: King Mongkut". "Anna and the King", 1999.

#Silence Quotes

“If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?”
-- Margaret Landon

#Pain Quotes #Choices Quotes #Exquisite Quotes

“That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations”
-- Margaret Landon

#Journey Quotes #Destination Quotes

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“A divided heart loses both worlds.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”