Inkeri Mentzoni Quotes & Sayings

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. — Henry Fielding

Instead of walking along the winding roads she had settled on hiking, which she had discovered was both more difficult and more likely to yield photographic possibilities. She carried her cameras in a nylon backpack. There was a dry wall of stone that she had photographed from a number of angles and that she thought might have possibilities. There was an old paper wasp nest built around the limb of a pine tree that had galvanized her for an entire morning and then when she looked at the pictures afterward on the computer screen they'd amounted to nothing, nothing that made her feel or think or look twice or hard. They were photographs you had to explain, which meant they were a failure. The — Anna Quindlen

We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware ... Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness. — Melody Beattie

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war. — Stanley Hauerwas

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village. — Roma Downey

If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss. — Mahmoud Al-Zahar

I tell you, I'm never going to stop. I'm not interested in rusting away. — Dick Biondi

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. — George Herbert

I grow impatient at the length of your exordium. — Plato

O, the difference of man and man!
To thee a woman's services are due. — William Shakespeare

For our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving — Thomas Mann

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth upon the world. But how many generations of the women of had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them. What if, when he had bidden May Welland to open hers, they could only look out blankly at blankness? — Edith Wharton

Where there is faith, fear cannot exist. — Radhanath Swami

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed. — Walt Whitman

To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else's work and shove it into our pockets. Then we run home and try to make it our own. — Christopher Stocking