Mechtilde Van Quotes & Sayings

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to. — Tucker Carlson

Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate. — Anne Wilkes Tucker

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love ... and, mirror-like ... each soul reflects the other. — Dante Alighieri

He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it. — Thomas Bernhard

We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
deeper meanings. — Allen Steck

he could see the darkness pulse, and the smell of decay had thickened to a stench. — Steven Erikson

The weak would never enter the kingdom of love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team. — John Mahoney

Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods. — Howard Florey

There is an of-quoted passage in Walden, in which Thoreau exhorts us to find our pole star and to follow it unwaveringly as would a sailor or a fugitive slave. It's a thrilling sentiment - one so obviously worthy of our aspirations. But even if you had the discipline to maintain the true course, the real problem, it has always seemed to me, is how to know in which part of the heavens your star resides — Amor Towles

People owe us nothing: they can blow through our lives, make us feel hopeful and loved, and then disappear with no explanation or apology. — Ryan O'Connell

It rolled over you like old oil from a fryer. — Ilona Andrews

What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm! — John Muir

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Tim. 3:16-17) — Mel Lawrenz

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. — Emile M. Cioran