Mekatang Quotes & Sayings

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love. — Jo Coudert

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. — Eliot Spitzer

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself. — Johannes Kepler

As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of. — Nico Muhly

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire. — Aristotle.

Fall always did that to her. It made her restless, like she was late getting back to school; like she should be registering for classes, and buying pencils and notebooks and folders that matched. — Jennifer Close

If I was going to be a princess, I would be a warrior princess. — Emma Watson

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education. — Helen McCrory

They would beat him and hammer him
and drill him. He bobbed, and ducked, and refused to fall. They struck out, as if they were driving nails into him, and with every blow he felt more like himself — Ivan Vladislavic

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. — Lisa Unger

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it. — Gustave Flaubert

The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for the purpose of contrasts in the making of new laws. — H. Wayne House

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you. — Anthony De Mello