Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Be...
BEN MARCUS Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much le...
BEN MARCUS It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of ...
BEN MARCUS I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love a...
BEN MARCUS It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through...
BEN MARCUS In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of Go...
BEN MARCUS To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people...
BEN MARCUS Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join an...
BEN MARCUS RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to...
BEN MARCUS The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.
BEN MARCUS I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chase...
BEN MARCUS A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it...
BEN MARCUS When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is a...
BEN MARCUS Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates ins...
BEN MARCUS In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes...
BEN MARCUS I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visce...
BEN MARCUS Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace...
BEN MARCUS My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at...
BEN MARCUS I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a ...
BEN MARCUS Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
BEN MARCUS I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.
BEN MARCUS The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, ...
BEN MARCUS My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
BEN MARCUS I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his wor...
BEN MARCUS When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to ...
BEN MARCUS I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science...
BEN MARCUS Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and n...
BEN MARCUS It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little...
BEN MARCUS Oh, don’t worry, I am perfectly aware of the fantasy involved here, but what we want is almost nev...
BEN MARCUS I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my ...
BEN MARCUS Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You hav...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON For me, brunch is such a versatile meal since you can play on both the sweet and savory in your dish...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Spices, of course, are essential.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it&#...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food th...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between c...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane d...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the futur...
MARCUS AURELIUS The darker the chocolate is, the more antioxidants it contains. So when eaten in moderation - just a...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
MARCUS AURELIUS Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
MARCUS AURELIUS Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and fri...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content to seem what you really are.
MARCUS AURELIUS You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be...
MARCUS AURELIUS The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
MARCUS AURELIUS Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with ...
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUS Poverty is the mother of crime.
MARCUS AURELIUS The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUS To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
MARCUS LUTTRELL I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing tha...
MARCUS LUTTRELL Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless wa...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
MARCUS MANILIUS Certain foods are good for preparing your body for an intense workout and giving you the energy you ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I th...
MARCUS LEMONIS While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual cand...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON The company's contributions are practically never made on the basis of friendship, party affiliation...
ALAN MARCUS It's a part of doing business. We're a professional-services firm and we have given to many politici...
ALAN MARCUS It's not unusual. It's common. And until somebody makes it illegal, they're going to keep doing it.
ALAN MARCUS We're really looking to branch out into new markets with this technology.
ALAN MARCUS I think a lot of retailers were playing it a bit more conservative. If you look at it three years ag...
ALAN MARCUS John and I spoke about it a few times. In fact, we spoke about it in the conference room in Trump To...
ALAN MARCUS It's incredible. Right now we're about 40 percent up from this time last year. It's been extraordina...
ALAN MARCUS The whole world is run on bluff.
MARCUS GARVEY Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come beca...
MARCUS COLE I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was al...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...
MARCUS AURELIUS Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to lo...
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...
MARCUS AURELIUS A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...
MARCUS AURELIUS We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking fo...
GREIL MARCUS Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in tas...
GREIL MARCUS Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm an...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your life is what your thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you ...
MARCUS GARVEY The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
MARCUS DOLENGO Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
MARCUS AURELIUS No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of...
GREIL MARCUS Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MARCUS AURELIUS It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the l...
GREIL MARCUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits...
MARCUS AURELIUS One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
MARCUS AURELIUS The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
MARCUS AURELIUS Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS Where a man can live, he can also live well.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
MARCUS AURELIUS Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS ANTONIUS Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin u...
MARCUS ANTONIUS It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
GREIL MARCUS Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself go...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good...
MARCUS AURELIUS Men exist for the sake of one another.
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushli...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them...
MARCUS AURELIUS Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds g...
MARCUS AURELIUS Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against ma...
MARCUS AURELIUS Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for w...
MARCUS ANTONIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a mi...
MARCUS AURELIUS Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
STANLEY MARCUS When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and...
MARCUS AURELIUS Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is unc...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, yo...
MARCUS GARVEY If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you h...
MARCUS GARVEY A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
MARCUS AURELIUS Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself g...
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-re...
MARCUS AURELIUS Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
MARCUS AURELIUS The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is
MARCUS AURELIUS Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
MARCUS AURELIUS Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
MARCUS AURELIUS For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
MARCUS AURELIUS So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know th...
MARCUS AURELIUS When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts
MARCUS AURELIUS