Manesche Quotes & Sayings

My Grandaddy used to tell me, "It ain't okay just to right a wrong. It ain't okay just to correct it. No, you gotta correct it ten times over. — Sean Patrick Flanery

First we become the best, then we'll become first. — Lou Holtz

I don't like the shrug. It's an abdication of responsibility for making sure that art keeps doing the things that art should do. If you shrug, that keeps the wheels turning the way they're turning. It lets corporations turn you into selfish consumers. It lets them fit you for a new pair of blinkers. And that means that predictability keeps getting prized over experimentation and product keeps getting prized over art. — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it. — Heloise

Are you doing what you ask others to do? — John C. Maxwell

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly. — Mohamed ElBaradei

Our thoughts have prepared for us the
happiness or unhappiness we experience. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. — Homer

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence, — Max Picard

At this moment (letting a breeze ripple through her fingers like warm water), Maggie felt that the entire business of time's passing was more than she could bear. — Anne Tyler

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war. — Tim O'Brien

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. — Denis Diderot

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh. — Dave Barry