Mannette Emnas Quotes & Sayings

I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights. — Wesley Clark

The prevailing view that Smith criticized was mercantilism, which held that wealth consisted of the stock of precious metals in a country. — Edd S. Noell

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. — Carl Sagan

My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture. — John Grisham

Only the highest souls realize and accept that he who sins is far more to be pitied, aye, and loved, if love is what the highest human passion should be, than is the one against whom the sinner has sinned. — Louise Jordan Miln

Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which does little or no good to the soul, and he who concerns himself about other things than those which lead to salvation is very unwise. — Thomas A Kempis

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology. — Barack Obama

Don't want to walk around with my imagination to depend on. I have a very evil imagination. It's one of my wicked womanly powers. Much worse than magic." "Is that right?" he asked with a laugh as he turned and crossed over to her. "Oh yes. Lots of exercise involved. I can jump to conclusions in a single bound. I'm more powerful than a murder motive. I'm faster than the town gossip. I am deadly and I must be stopped. — Jacquelyn Frank

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie. — Martha Plimpton

When the devil is shouting 'no way', get ready ... the way is about to show up. — Jerry Savelle

When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is. — Esther Hicks

Like a Rolling Stone" gave me the faith that a true, unaltered, uncompromised vision could be broadcast to millions, changing minds, enlivening spirits, bringing red blood to the anemic American pop landscape and delivering a warning, a challenge that could become an essential part of the American conversation. This was music that could both stir the heart of your fellow countrymen and awaken the mind of a shy, lost fifteen-year-old in a small New Jersey town. — Bruce Springsteen