Quotes & Sayings About Mehnat

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. — A.P. Herbert

Nevertheless, to question authority is not, in principle, to attack it, although authority always assumes that this is the case since authority must repeatedly establish its right to rule; and if this is done by force, then it turns out that it was a tyranny all along. Good heavens, I can't believe I am preaching this to an audience of Irishmen! Just think about it: a quarter of an hour of rational thinking and an Englishman turns into an Irishman. — Terry Pratchett

The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant "government of the people" but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term "people" to actually mean. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's easy to die. Just give your breath back to the trees and the wind. — Peter Levitt

You are so beautiful," he whispered. He stepped closer, but before she could touch him he took her hand and brought it to his lips.
"When I saw you tonight I think my heart stopped beating."
"And is it now?" she whispered.
He took her hand and laid it over his heart. She could feel it pounding beneath his skin, almost hear it reverberating through her own body. He was so strong, and so solid, and so wonderfully male.
"Do you know what I wanted to do?" he murmured.
She shook her head, too entranced by the low heat of his voice to make a noise of her own.
"I wanted to turn you around and push you right back through the door before anyone else saw you. I didn't want to share you." He traced her lips with his finger. "I still don't. — Julia Quinn

That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously. — Sylvia Plath

The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to know how the wind is blowing , you can look at the sand. — Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke. — Hilma Af Klint

The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It was the best night ever.
And they hadn't talked about any of it since. — Megan Abbott

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies. — Mason Cooley