Mealey Quotes & Sayings

There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world. — William Sloane Coffin

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. — Amity Shlaes

Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff. — Margaret Cho

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses. — Abdulrazak Gurnah

She wanted to tell him of the years she had spent looking for men such as he to work with; she wanted to tell him that his enemies were hers, that she was fighting the same battle ... — Ayn Rand

The ACE study group concluded: "Although widely understood to be harmful to health, each adaptation [such as smoking, drinking, drugs, obesity] is notably difficult to give up. Little consideration is given to the possibility that many long-term health risks might also be personally beneficial in the short term. We repeatedly hear from patients of the benefits of these 'health risks.' The idea of the problem being a solution, while understandably disturbing to many, is certainly in keeping with the fact that opposing forces routinely coexist in biological systems. . . . What one sees, the presenting problem, is often only the marker for the real problem, which lies buried in time, concealed by patient shame, secrecy and sometimes amnesia - and frequently clinician discomfort. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. — Barry Commoner

If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay. — Shah Rukh Khan

Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain. — Sam Kean

There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things. — Witold Rybczynski

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I always say that I'm a clean athlete and that I should be randomly tested anytime, urine and blood. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you. — Leontyne Price