Mantiveram Quotes & Sayings

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands. — Adam Clarke

Your mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not
you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only if it's the last time you'll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you'd stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.
But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran. — Emmy Laybourne

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work. — Andrew Wyeth

The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength. By the early 1970s over 75 percent of the people living on Earth were under 21 years of age. The population continued to climb - and with it the youth percentage.
In the 1980s the figure was 79.7 percent.
In the 1990s, 82.4 percent.
In the year 2000 - critical mass. — William F. Nolan

Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch. — Alice Cooper

When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there. — Lloyd Banks

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently. — James Hillman