Mantke Quotes & Sayings

Never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain. — Seth Grahame-Smith

an Afghan archaeologist followed the Taliban through the museum, "pleading for mercy as if begging for the lives of [his] own children."14 Such pleas were meaningless to those who felt their axes swung with God's weight behind them. — Karima Bennoune

The Sabbath rest of God is the acknowledgment that God and God's people in the world are not commodities to be dispatched for endless production and so dispatched, as we used to say, as "hands" in the service of a command economy. Rather they are subjects situated in an economy of neighborliness. All of that is implicit in the reality and exhibit of divine rest. — Walter Brueggemann

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent. — Saint Augustine

Upon subjects which interested him, and when quite at ease, he possessed that flow of natural, and somewhat florid eloquence, which has been supposed as powerful as figure, fashion, fame, or fortune, in winning the female heart. There — Walter Scott

Be cheerful . Strive to be happy. — Max Ehrmann

Most jokes come from good intentions - and most mistakes, too. — Ben Tolosa

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting — Gregory David Roberts

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right! — Frances Farmer

You can observe a lot by watching. — Yogi Berra

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others. — Han Fei

Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life. — David O. McKay

I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it. — Nouman Ali Khan

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play. — Soren Kierkegaard