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Margaret Millar

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Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
MARGARET MILLAR Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses
MARGARET MILLER I opened myself to your silences.
MARGARET ATWOOD The most honest conversations are those you have with yourself in the silence of deep self-contempla...
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
PADGETT POWELL The scenario [of how the witness says the crash occurred] is simply not believable,
BRUCE SEWELL Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the impo...
ANDREA BOCELLI She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to t...
AYN RAND The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the ...
JOHN IRVING Most of the tenants are local entities who have multi-state, if not a national presence in their fie...
GREGG GOTHREAUX Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of...
PETER KREEFT In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
ORLANDO BLOOM When the hypocrites come to you, they say: We bear witness that you are most surely Allah's Apostle;...
QURAN The most boring and fruitless conversations are those where they all agree with you
H ROSANO The Monologues are performed by a combination of both law students and theater and musical theater m...
LAUREN GRAY The most important part to play as a leader is not to lead but to ensure that promised services are ...
SELLO HARROLT MAGABANE Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to wa...
SINCLAIR LEWIS I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations mo...
REID HOFFMAN So few people understand about anything.
MARGARET ATWOOD Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the r...
NICOLE ARI PARKER Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the pr...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA Simply Hired has created the most simple, effective job search experience on the planet. Fox Interac...
GAUTAM GODHWANI Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
MARGARET MILLAR The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margar...
MARGARET SANGER The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty obser...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my a...
STEVE MARABOLI Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conv...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The company delivered a profit report that surpassed even the most optimistic expectations.
FREDERIC RUFFY Our domestic tobacco business delivered solid income gains in a highly competitive marketplace, ... ...
LOUIS CAMILLERI Skip dominates most conversations in a negotiation and nobody questions the veracity of what he's sa...
WILLIAM MORRIS Strong performance across most of our power operations delivered a quarter-over-quarter increase in ...
HAL KVISLE We're going to see it in our prices. Most of the products we buy are delivered by truck and somewher...
DOTTY HARPOOL If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can h...
WEN JIABAO You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to t...
AYN RAND A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge...
JON RONSON Surely those who should be offended most are the loyal South Park fans who were delivered at best on...
FRANCES GRANT Most problems are simply missed opportunities. The flip side of every problem is a solution.
MARK LAKEMAN Now I only need to look
out at them through my sky-blue eyes.
They see their own ill will<...
MARGARET ATWOOD Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,
JUDY BLUME Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
JUDY BLUME If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-...
CHARLES DICKENS Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY A dialogue is more than two monologues.
MAX M. KAMPELMAN My client has previously denied that any sexual activity ever took place in that bathroom stall and ...
PETE ANDERSON There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
BOB EHRLICH His mind wandered. He engaged in long rambling monologues.
GITANJALI GUTIERREZ One of the best ways to recharge is by simply being in the presence of art. No thoughts, no critique...
DEAN FRANCIS ALFAR In order simply to stay ahead, most companies, in most sectors, are probably involved in some techno...
DAVID COBB Of course men can attend! We encourage it. The Vagina Monologues are about raising awareness, celebr...
LAUREN GRAY One who knows himself thoroughly will always find loneliness either being presence in crowd or simpl...
ANUJ SOMANY The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
DAN KAMINSKY Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
JIM FOWLER One thing we are forgetting about 'The Vagina Monologues' is that it's a piece that was chosen by th...
EMILY PHILLIPS Child birth is one of the most natural and ancient things to occur, and the fact that 95 percent (of...
AARON WOLF We are waiting for the outcome of the conversations.
JOHN BOLTON Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the acti...
SARITA CHOUDHURY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE IN THE REFRIGERATOR MONOLOGUES Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
MARGARET ATWOOD She stubs out her cigarette in the brown glass ashtray, then settles herself against him, ear to his...
MARGARET ATWOOD She’s the kind of woman who wants what she doesn’t have and gets what she wants and then despise...
MARGARET ATWOOD Reading can be dangerous.
DIANE SETTERFIELD Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own int...
SAMANTHA HARVEY You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. When you know someone of Peter's dynamism and presence, you simply think they will always be there,
ROBERT IGER A lot of the conversations I have with fellow runners are very esoteric.
BILL BUFFUM I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witne...
JOHN WYNDHAM Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't k...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Actions are most important in life: act with love, kindness, understanding, and compassion toward ot...
KEN POIROT But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has b...
SHEILA WALSH That's not setting a date for departure at this time, ... That's simply conveying clearly and forcef...
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MARGARET ATWOOD If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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MARGARET ATWOOD Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,...
MARGARET CHAN Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ...
MARGARET ATWOOD People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
MARGARET THATCHER My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
MARGARET ANDERSON It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st...
MARGARET GELLER You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev...
MARGARET WEIS I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and lea...
MARGARET THATCHER This lady is not for turning.
MARGARET THATCHER Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to Engla...
MARGARET ATWOOD They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.
MARGARET ATWOOD Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all...
MARGARET ATWOOD No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
MARGARET ATWOOD The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ...
MARGARET ATWOOD I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
MARGARET THATCHER