Margaret Lee Runbeck - People Quotes

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The people in my house always think if you're talking on the telephone it is their chance to engage your other ear, without your being able to talk back.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Nobody has ever written a juvenile book on 'How to win friends and influence people.' Children are born knowing.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

I may not believe in God. But I do believe in the people who believe in God.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Some people are born into their religions, as they are born into being blondes, or French, or inhabitants of the upper brackets of wealth. This inherited religion is often too perfunctory to be of much practical use. As in most other values, the intimately important religion is the one which has been chosen voluntarily.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

The people who are willing to talk about imagination seldom have much. Imagination is a guilty secret, usually, a possession best kept inside the privacy of one's own skull.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

We have our own front page, as all people do who live in the country. It is the sky and the earth, with headlines new every morning. We wake to take in its news as city dwellers reach across thresholds for their newspapers.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Even when we love people, we're fairly philosophical about their suffering and what it will bring them!

Margaret Lee Runbeck