Mecilessness Quotes & Sayings

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself. — David Foster Wallace

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action. — John Dewey

I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day. — Kate Beckinsale

I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is. — Raymond Burr

Truth be told, our worst fear is that we will live and die and our lives will have made no difference to anyone. — Bill Blankschaen

Austrian Republic established after the war gave an amnesty to 90 per cent of members of the Nazi Party in 1948, and to the SS and Gestapo by 1957. — Edmund De Waal

After dinner was served,
and the kids were done eating,
it was finally time
to go trick-or-treating!
Moms re-painted faces,
and straightened clown hats,
put wings back on fairies,
angels, and bats.

Jack-o'-lanterns were set
out on porches with care.
Their grins seemed to say,
"Knock if you dare."
Gypsies and pirates
and zombies in rags,
grabbed their bright flashlights
and trick-or-treat bags.

They walked down each lane,
avenue, and street,
rang every doorbell
and said, "Trick or treat! — Natasha Wing

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple. — Seth Godin

I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though
not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because it is already clear that the whole world is being shaken into a new pattern by the cataclysms we are living through: probably by the time we are through, if we do get through at all, the aims of Women's Liberation will look very small and quaint. — Doris Lessing