Christopher Meloni Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be. [First published, Childe Harold, 1812 — George Gordon Byron

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray. — Victor Hugo

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Novelists would do well to remember that when the works of the scholar-historians create doubt in the researcher's mind, the researcher then turns to literature as a primary source for confirmation or correction. If the truth of a time, a people, a state is not available anywhere else, let it be in the novel. - from Twayne's US Authors Series: JOHN A WILLIAMS by Gilbert Muller — John A. Williams

I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals. — Emile Zola

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.
[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] — Suetonius

I liked the idea of bouncy, open-air Jeeps and I liked the outfits with all the pockets, only I didn't really want to live in Africa and be shot by poachers/get malaria/get stabbed to death. — Deb Caletti

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. — Margaret Mead

Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has. — Joel C. Rosenberg

We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it. — Seamus Heaney

The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity. — Tariq Ali