Margaret Edson famous quotes

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.
-- Margaret Edson

#Kindness #Smart #Care

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
-- Margaret Edson

#Vocabulary #Acquisition #Defense

……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.
-- Margaret Edson

#Lying #Writing #Littles

……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.
-- Margaret Edson

#Lying #Writing #Littles

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.

One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.