Mayerson Center Quotes & Sayings

It is not understood that before life an individual decides to
live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the
body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born.
He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness
or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will
kill a person who does not want to die. — Seth

There's always some way to find hope. Remember that. — Nick Jonas

When you teach a man to hate and to fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color, or his beliefs or the policies that he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you, threaten your freedom or your job or your home or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens, but as enemies. — Robert Kennedy

There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures. — Warren Buffett

Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess. — Sunday Adelaja

Anyone looking honestly at life will see that we live in a constant state of suspense and ambiguity. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented. — Michael Cera

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education. — Thomas Friedman

With emotion, so thick I am surprised it does not choke him on the way out. — Veronica Roth

Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written. — Adam Pally

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will. — Elizabeth Gilbert

After even the first few steps, the disadvantages of the bus ride seemed like small potatoes. 'Small potatoes' is a phrase which has nothing to do with root vegetables that happen to be tiny in size. Instead, it refers to the change in one's feelings for something when it is compared with something else. If you were walking in the rain, for instance, you might be worried about getting wet, but if you turned the corner and saw a pack of vicious dogs, getting wet would suddenly become small potatoes next to getting chased down an alley and barked at, or possibly eaten. — Lemony Snicket

Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility. — Rafael Cruz

I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia. — Addison Timlin

I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you. — Peter Sagal