Meeuwsen Quotes & Sayings

Brim is hope. Brim is love. — Bree Despain

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. — Buffalo Bill

A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being — Eckhart Tolle

Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag, — Sinclair Lewis

An assault on an ideology is not merely different from a threat made to a person; it is the opposite of a threat made to a person. The whole end of liberal civilization is to substitute the criticism of ideas for assaults on people. — Adam Gopnik

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh. — Patton Oswalt

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't keep any copy of my books around ... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. — Ludwig Bemelmans

Imagine, I might really become somebody. Someday. — Maya Angelou

When you love someone, you want their happiness even when it's not going to involve you. Even when it depends on your lack of involvement. — Mhairi McFarlane

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out. — Ben Goldacre

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty. — Jon Porter

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it. — Cormac McCarthy

The strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and father met and decided to get married to each other. And out of the millions of sperm, that the one with your genes was the one that made it to the egg and fertilised the egg. I'll never forget it. — A. J. Jacobs