Melandas Quotes & Sayings

I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.' — Chris Paine

The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian. — Ronald H. Nash

All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.' — Harvey Weinstein

People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control. — Richard Rohr

Work with enthusiasm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

That's great, Jean. I'm not just exiled; I'm being plumped up for slaughter. — Scott Lynch

Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked. — Ray Toro

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume. — Charles Caleb Colton

Everybody has choices. The question is whether you will choose to see them or not. — Brinda Berry

Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary. — Joel Salatin

All who call on God in true faith ... will certainly be heard. — Martin Luther

[The media] are using a national treasure
that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses. — Amy Goodman

I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better. — Jeffrey Fry

I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there. — Christopher Moore

As I grew older, my love for reading grew stronger. I read with studious interest everything I could find relating to colored men who had gained prominence. My heroes had been King David, then Robert the Bruce; now Frederick Douglass was enshrined in the place of honor. — James Weldon Johnson