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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck.


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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was belie...
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is...
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say th...
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritua...
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK I opened myself to your silences.
MARGARET ATWOOD They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee...
KATE CLINTON Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. I...
HAIM GINOTT There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,
JUDY BLUME Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
JUDY BLUME More FUN. Less Stuff. More HAPPINESS.
LORRIN L. LEE Margaret Calhoun may not have been a holy roller, but she sure could fry the Hell out of a chicken.
STEVEN NORTON Hey Rusty. It's not Hee-lee-oh! It's E-lee-oh!
HELIO CASTRONEVES (Lee) threw his fastball well. They swung the bats well still but Lee did a good job.
JEFF TAGEANT Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconica...
PHILIP PULLMAN Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Happiness is a manifestation of Love.
LORRIN L. LEE I sincerely apologize to you, Dr. Lee, for the unfair manner in which you were held in custody by th...
JAMES PARKER But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margare...
GEORGE BUSH But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Mar...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private r...
ELIZABETH GASKELL (Lee is) a joyful raconteur, a woman with grit, grace and humor. Lee is the desert's lover. Her voic...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.
MARGARET THATCHER I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE I'm a commercial writer, not an "author." Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
MEL FERRER We [feminists] must all be followers of Margaret Sanger.
CRYSTAL EASTMAN A lee-tle bit
TREVANIAN My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encou...
ASHLEY JENSEN Dr. Lee is not a hero, he is not an absent-minded professor, he is a felon,
JANET RENO Keep a big glass of cool water close while reading this one. —Margaret Smith
SCARLETT AVERY Lee is not with a club right now and is spending time with us.
PAUL WILKINSON Lee was under a great deal of physical and mental distress at the time.
JAMES FILKINS Margaret came up and got a huge hit to give us a cushion.
CHRIS OLSEN I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.
MARGARET ATWOOD Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.
KAMI GARCIA Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown w...
DOUGLAS HURD Lee Ryan Is Crazy!
LISA SCOTT-LEE Spike Lee is part of a retrograde movement in this country.
AMIRI BARAKA I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.
ELTON JOHN The death of Bruce Lee, coming at such a young age and in the peak of physical fitness, has given ri...
JAMES FILKINS Even at seventy-four, with a limp from a hip replacement, Margaret could still enter a room and fill...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Fernando glanced at the parrot. “And I see some things never change, Margaret. Your house always r...
JOSIE RIVIERA Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.
EDWARD EVERETT Lee has been a lot of our offensive power.
JOSH CAMMACK Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Sen...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky...
SIMON HOGGART One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise peo...
PILOU ASBAEK You're like a crack enhanced Kathie Lee!
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I hap...
ANTHONY MACKIE When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
JACKIE CHAN Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extr...
TAHEREH MAFI Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year f...
DAVID ADELMAN Of course I invited Bush and Margaret Thatcher and (Spanish former prime minister) Felipe Gonzalez, ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margar...
MARGARET SANGER I remember I asked Margaret, 'Well, is there anything I specifically do? Should I give Byron a tour ...
PETER BUTLER They offered us Tommy Lee , they didn't offer us Snow White. ... Tommy Lee Goes to College.
HARVEY PERLMAN I spoke to him [Lee] and said 'I'm not getting a look-in and I want to be playing'. He understood th...
COLIN LEE It's going to come down to however much Senator Lee is willing to make this a top priority. It's a t...
BEN WILCOX When you think of 'gay,' you think of white male. We chose Margaret Cho because she represents all t...
KATHY TOTOKI But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora.

"Well, she likes me, and I used to...
GENE STRATTON-PORTER I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
ED ASNER If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou...
MARGARET THATCHER He who has no time to LIVE will have NO time to live.
LORRIN L. LEE "If you do this, that will will happen. If you don't do this, that won't happen.
LORRIN L. LEE What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.
MICHAEL HOWARD Hassan Harbish. Sunni Muslim. Not a terrorist."
Lindsey Lee Wells. Methodist. Me, neither.
JOHN GREEN The president is pleased that Senator Howard Baker and Congressman Lee Hamilton have agreed to condu...
JOE LOCKHART I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in ...
GEORGE STIGLER HAPPINESS comes from Doing what you Love. Loving what you Do. And, Being with whom you Love.
LORRIN L. LEE Happiness comes from Responsibility. Misery from Blame.
LORRIN L. LEE The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incr...
LL COOL J It's 'ow,' like, you stubbed your toe. 'Lee,' like Bruce Lee. Then, you add an &...
AULI'I CRAVALHO As far as I can judge, Angela Merkel is not like Margaret Thatcher, and she actually should not try ...
CHARLES MOORE It is not as it has been painted - with me being pro-nuclear and Margaret being anti-nuclear. We bot...
PETER MANDELSON We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I h...
REX TILLERSON Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backwards market. In most markets jobs come first a...
ALAN HUNTER Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backward market. In most markets, jobs come first a...
ALAN HUNTER Japan is very clear about what kind of person Lee is.
KONG QUAN You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer...an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to w...
MARGARET ATWOOD There are sight distance issues, and people do speed, but that stretch of Lee Highway is not that di...
CHRIS WELLS Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
SARAH ORNE JEWETT You are getting what you do deserve. You are not getting what you don't deserve.
LORRIN L. LEE One of the greatest gifts you can give someone -- is to LOVE them the way they are and the way they ...
LORRIN L. LEE Eddie Kirkland played with John Lee Hooker for a number of years on all his major recordings, so he ...
MARK CAMARIGG Guess what? Lee Harris' place is homes now.
JOHN ARNOLD Lee is really starting to sharpen everything up.
TOMMY DOLDE A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but h...
HARPER LEE 'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.
JIMMY PAGE If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramat...
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MARGARET MEAD Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHER Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHER Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
MARGARET FULLER Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi...
MARGARET BROWNLEY What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words....
MARGARET OLIPHANT The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
MARGARET GATTY I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a...
MARGARET THATCHER The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a...
MARGARET MEAD A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to t...
MARGARET MEAD When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
MARGARET SACKVILLE