Manske Machinery Quotes & Sayings

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. — Joseph Conrad

Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced by a curious process of logic. According to this process, people first declare themselves to be followers of Christ, and then they assume that whatever they say or do merits the adjective "Christian". — Wendell Berry

But the important thing is that I don't do anything else. I avoid social life normally associated with publishing. I don't go to the cocktail parties, I don't give or go to dinner parties. I need that time in the evening because I can do a tremendous amount of work then. And I can concentrate. When I sit down to write I never brood. I have so many other things to do, with my children and teaching, that I can't afford it ... — Toni Morrison

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. — William Shakespeare

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. — Hillary Clinton

Although he had read that Pittsburgh was becoming an in-demand moviemaking town. — Lee Child

Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. — Jimmy Carter

Some people just shouldn't speak. — Elizabeth Johnson

This story is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
"I could find another one," Basil says.
"No, I want to see if they'll I through with it," she says.
"I don't understand why they're throwing her in the volcano," I say.
"Because she's a virgin," Basil says, and clears his throat.
"We could throw Morgan into the volcano," Pen says. — Lauren DeStefano

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life ... — Elizabeth Goudge