Meienberg Niklaus Quotes & Sayings

What the hell was that?" I gasped. "Premature inflammation," he replied. "Happens sometimes. Very embarrassing. I don't like to talk about it. — Jeaniene Frost

He sat back with a satisfied grin. "I just wanted you to admit it." He was especially cute when he got cocky, and he knew it. — Laurelin Paige

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims. — Frank Chodorov

For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives. — Plato

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. — Elizabeth Janeway

It's not easy, either psychologically or practically, to keep tweaking the truth to make it all fit together. — Haruki Murakami

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level. — Howard Hawks

Waiting exposes our idols and throws a wrench into our coping mechanisms. It brings us to the end of what we can control and forces us to cry out to God. God doesn't waste our waiting. He uses it to conform us to the image of his Son. — Betsy Childs Howard

God receives none but those who are forsaken, restores health to none but those who are sick, gives sight to none but the blind, and life to none but the dead. He does not give saintliness to any but sinners, nor wisdom to any but fools. In short: He has mercy on none but the wretched and gives grace to none but those who are in disgrace. Therefore no arrogant saint, or just or wise man can be material for God, neither can he do the work of God, but he remains confined within his own work and makes of himself a fictitious, ostensible, false, and deceitful saint, that is, a hypocrite — Martin Luther

I don't hate my relatives or those whose names fill my address book. But I do not want to have lunch with any of them. It is not personal. I am not angry. Nor is this about being afraid. I am not shy. I do not have terrible manners.

Do birds hate lips? Do Fijians detest snowplows? Being a loner is not about hate, but need: We need what others dread. We dread what others need. — Anneli Rufus

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad. — Sylvia Townsend Warner