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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 967fa82 | Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10 | Martina Cole | ||
| 97df0e4 | use what you've got. Always find a use for what you've got. Never promise what you can't deliver, and always do a deal with a smile and a friendly word if possible. That advice had served him in good stead all his working life. | Martina Cole | ||
| ebbf901 | The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings them trouble Proverbs 15:6 | Martina Cole | ||
| d3dadfd | missed her mother and her sister so badly it was a constant pain inside of her. | Martina Cole | ||
| ad6d1bd | Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap Galatians 6:7 For the wages of sin is death Romans 6:23 | Martina Cole | ||
| eae1493 | God be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:13 | Martina Cole | ||
| 1019432 | Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light Paradise Lost (1667) John Milton, 1608-74 For the love of money is the root of all evil 1 Timothy 6:10 | Martina Cole | ||
| 06c72df | My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three.' - William Cowper, 1731-1800 With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. - Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens, 1812-1870 | Martina Cole | ||
| 3d5633a | Children were unlucky really. They were born without any say in things whatsoever. It was a lottery for them in some respects, what kind of mother they would acquire once out of the warmth of a snug and comfortable womb. A loving caring individual who would rush to fulfil their every whim? Or a selfish one who resented their intrusion into her otherwise orderly life? Children were a shock to the system for most women. The idea of a baby was.. | Martina Cole | ||
| d5737a3 | Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it? | Martina Cole | ||
| 5807e30 | It was a pleasure when a person remembered that good manners cost fuck-all, and it went a long way. | Martina Cole | ||
| 2bc452d | Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679 | Martina Cole | ||
| 5db24ff | Deep in my soul that tender secret dwells, Lonely and lost to light for evermore, Save when to thine my heart responsive swells, Then trembles into silence as before. 'The Corsair', Lord Byron (1788-1824) | Martina Cole | ||
| 36da2ba | The dole was supposed to tide you over till you got a fucking job. It was never meant to be your fucking main earn. | Martina Cole | ||
| b42cc68 | Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else's as well. | Martina Cole | ||
| e5fb570 | Michael Flynn was so angry he was almost spitting his words down the phone. Over six feet tall and with a heavy build he was a big man and, as everyone in the room knew, he was more than capable of great violence. He was paying them for their expertise, which they currently seemed to be lacking in. In fact, they were irritating the arse off him with their stupidity. | Martina Cole | ||
| dec67ec | beauty could be a scourge, and to remember that looks faded eventually, but the beauty inside her was for ever. She had liked hearing that. It had the ring of truth to it. | Martina Cole | ||
| d4b9eb8 | Tardiness was the greatest insult of them all; arrangements were made to suit those concerned - it was the height of rudeness to overlook other people's needs. | Martina Cole | ||
| 572d0b5 | Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.' William Blake (1757-1827) | Martina Cole | ||
| 1ab3311 | Great is truth and it prevails. 3 Esdras 4.41 | Martina Cole | ||
| ee4c712 | You lost the plot again, where you are now ain't clear, It's a misty morning memory, the road that took you here Alabama 3, 'You Don't Dance To Techno Anymore' Album: Exile on Coldharbour Lane, 1997 | Martina Cole | ||
| c860349 | After all, they were brothers, bonded by blood, and nothing would ever change that. | Martina Cole | ||
| 8fca12d | No time like the present' Mrs Manley (The Lost Lover, 1696), 1663-1724 'From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure; Not liking the person, yet liking his treasure.' Elizabeth Thomas, 1675-1731 'What's done cannot be undone.' William Shakespeare (Macbeth, 1606), 1564-1616 | Martina Cole | ||
| 3d1430c | see that a mother's love, a real mother's love, is probably the most important thing a child can have in its life. It means more than money, more than anything. | Martina Cole | ||
| c7ba223 | Take care and God bless, Martina x | Martina Cole | ||
| 399a8a5 | I hope to meet many of you at my signings, and I look forward to saying hello to you all. Take care and God bless, Martina x | Martina Cole | ||
| 21488fb | Hindsight really is a fucking wonderful thing. | Martina Cole | ||
| 1f4713c | You make people into what you want them to be and, then, when they break your heart, you have to find the strength to carry on. | Martina Cole | ||
| 6d070ff | There was an old Irish saying of my nana's - she always said you get the life you deserve. I hope against hope that there was no truth in that. But only time will tell. | Martina Cole | ||
| 6e171fd | She shakes the blues off then she tries her luck Makes a little bet, hopes her horse comes up Pickin' pockets for some easy money 'Cause she blew the goddamn lot on the National Lottery Alabama 3, 'Mansion On The Hill' Album: La Peste, 2000 | Martina Cole | ||
| 51b22f4 | We all have to live by our own lights, love, do what we can. | Martina Cole | ||
| e7060c4 | Youth, as Oscar Wilde had once said, was wasted on the young! | Martina Cole | ||
| 35b86ec | A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matthew 10:36 | Martina Cole | ||
| 59ee3cb | Without a second thought, without anything except their own need to give. | Martina Cole | ||
| e80adab | People only know what you tell them, child. Remember that all your life. Only tell your secrets to people you know will keep them just what they are. Who will keep them as they were meant to be. Kept. Secret. | Martina Cole | ||
| 4262fc8 | There is power in the blood, justice in the sword When that call it comes, I will be ready for war Alabama 3, 'Power In The Blood' Album: Power in the Blood, 2002 | Martina Cole | ||
| 9a0f289 | The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.' George Santayana 1863-1952 'There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.' Isaiah 48:22 | Martina Cole | ||
| d1046eb | Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart - Samuel Johnson, 1709-84 | Martina Cole | ||
| a491d45 | It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do Edmund Burke (1729-97) | Martina Cole | ||
| a4139b9 | people who feel she ain't | Martina Cole | ||
| a68f5be | Destiny Wallace was just fourteen years old but she looked at least nineteen or twenty - and that was in her school uniform. Annie couldn't help but wonder if evolution was to blame, because most of the girls in this particular group all looked like clones of each other. Well, or of Kim Kardashian or another famous person, famous for no other reason that that were famous for basically doing fuck-all constructive. | Martina Cole | ||
| 04bf4c9 | God pays back debts without money. | Martina Cole | ||
| 75abfcc | Dux femina facti The leader of the enterprise a woman. Virgil | Martina Cole | ||
| dfbe346 | She was not a person who had any right to decency or kindness, she was not a person to aspire to be. She was cruel, and she was evil in many ways. She took what she wanted from anyone, she was nasty, vindictive and she never threw me a kind word. | Martina Cole |