Meabels Quotes & Sayings

The I you know isn't me, you said, truthtelling liar
My roots are not my chains
And I to you: Whose hands have grown
through mine? Owl-voiced I cried then: Who?
But yours was the one, the only eye assumed
Did we turn each other into liars?
holding hands with each others' chains? — Adrienne Rich

I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well! — Tommy Davidson

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER. — Walter Dean Myers

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think. — Jesse Shera

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility ... but the payoffs are well worth it. — Will Estes

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty. — Don Kates

Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy. — Timothy Snyder

It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of my death, that it will happen again an infinite number of times, that we will meet, marry, have our children, succeed in the ways we have, fail in the ways we have, all exactly the same, always unable to change a thing. I am again at the bottom of an unstoppable wheel, and when I feel my eyes close for death, as they have and will a thousand times, I awake. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. — Benjamin Franklin

Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace. — Agnivesh

Systems awareness and systems design are important for health professionals, but they are not enough. They are enabling mechanisms only. It is the ethical dimensions of individuals that are essential to a system's success. Ultimately, the secret of quality is love. You have to love your patient, you have to love your profession, you have to love your God. If you have love, you can then work backward to monitor and improve the system. — Avedis Donabedian