Meer Shank Quotes & Sayings

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing. — William Graham Sumner

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere. — Anthony Hopkins

I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and stripped it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me. — Edie Sedgwick

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid. — Charlie Munger

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. — Bertrand Russell

Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus. — John Piper

For Jewish people, salmon has a special meaning, not just because it's a flavor we've had all along our diaspora. Salmon also have this special return-to-their-roots desire. At the end of their lives, salmon try to swim back to when they were born. Even if they can't, they have this obsession. We as diaspora people love that a lot about salmon. — Charlemagne Palestine

Some guy on the radio called us the "lost generation" the other day. I wanted to find a payphone and a few quarters and tell that fool that we aren't lost at all.

We're exactly where they put us. — Alexandra Bracken

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker

You have gone into the Temple ... and found Him, as always, there. — C.S. Lewis

Sometimes you can't stand the sound of her voice and other times you wonder how you'd even breathe if she wasn't there. That's marriage, and she'll feel the same way. — Shannon Stacey

There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether. — Oliver Lodge