Meddesk Quotes & Sayings

When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam. — Derrick Jensen

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you. — B.B. King

Can you make the salad while I fix the garlic bread?"
He flashed her a grin. "Babe, I live to make salad. — Paige Tyler

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty. — Steven J. Lawson

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. — Thomas Merton

The nice thing about having relatives' kids around is that they go home. — Cliff Richard

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it. — Sara Sheridan

It was hard to know what direction to take when you suddenly found yourself in a future different from the one you'd expected to be in the day before. — Dexter Palmer

When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those who were opposed to interracial marriage], will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination. — Robert Lewis Hinkle

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. — Thomas Carlyle

People live their lives thinking that they are forgotten, and that is why we do the most outrageous things, so as not to go unnoticed — Rawi Hage

Because ... as you already know from experience, I wont abandon a damsel in distress — Marilyn Phillips

Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have. — Jim Abbott

Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me. — Roman Polanski

During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions — Mike Krzyzewski