Gretell Merlo Quotes & Sayings

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. — Creighton Abrams

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow. — Billy Graham

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform. — Wyndham Lewis

I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well is shared in some magical way. — Gene Black

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. — Jeanette Winterson

Such letters ... from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc ... Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS ... concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even once observed ... a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place. — Dean Burk

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. — Henry David Thoreau

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die. — George Bernard Shaw

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already. — Laird Hamilton

Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to destroy either of these contrary instincts, they seek to satisfy both at once. They imagine a single, omnipotent, tutelary power, but one that is elected by the citizens. They combine centralization with popular sovereignty. This gives them some respite. They console themselves for being treated as wards by imagining that they have chosen their own protectors. Each individual allows himself to be clapped in chains because that the other end of the chain is held not by a man or a class but by the people themselves. — Alexis De Tocqueville

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. — Joan Didion

I hadn't slept with anyone in two years. Frankly, it was unnatural. The way I reacted to Will made me think that I really needed to give up the saint act, — Renee Carlino

the number of imaginary sheep in this world remains a matter of guesswork, who is richer or poorer for it? No, sir; I'm not their scorekeeper. Let them count themselves, if they're so crazy mad after mathematics. Let them do their own dirty work. Coming around here, at this time of day, and asking me to count them! — Dorothy Parker