Evans Mefos Quotes & Sayings

Humans lose focus of the big picture when they're drunken in the midst of their feelings. - Tojuro Hattori — Yuhki Kamatani

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. — Frank Herbert

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,
Her ashes new-create another heir
As great in admiration as herself. — William Shakespeare

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all. — Peter F. Drucker

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. — Andy Andrews

That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly. — Scott Westerfeld

Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity. — Ogwo David Emenike

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe ... It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations ... we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes. — Frederick Seitz

A little after moonrise Stephen woke. Extreme hunger had brought on cramps in his midriff again and he held his breath to let them pass: Jack was still sitting there, the tiller under his knee, the sheet in his hand, as though he had never moved, as though he were as immoveable as the Rock of Gibraltar and as unaffected by hunger, thirst, fatigue, or despondency. In this light he even looked rock-like, the moon picking out the salient of his nose and jaw and turning his broad shoulders and upper man into one massive block. He had in fact lost almost as much weight as a man can lose and live, and in the day his shrunken, bearded face with deep-sunk eyes was barely recognizable; but the moon showed the man unchanged. — Patrick O'Brian

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different. — Wes Anderson

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. — George Herbert

The ear may be a more open organ than the eye when it comes to the pleasure of words. — Charles McNair