I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective! — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child... — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . .… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
“Oh, stop talking," I cried, in a hunted tone. "I can't bear it. If you are going to arrest me, get it over." "I'd… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
