Melancolicas Quotes & Sayings

Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless. — Marlene Dietrich

The door handle is the handshake of the building. — Juhani Pallasmaa

I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don't believe in fear. I bulldoze right in. — Liz Goldwyn

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all. — Edwin Markham

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others. — Alice Duer Miller

It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity. — Tim O'Brien

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event. — Aaron Siskind

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed? — John Cotton