Melbert Durham Quotes & Sayings

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people. — Thomas Sowell

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan. — Taya Kyle

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]. — Publilius Syrus

The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Work harder than anyone you know, and be lucky enough to be blessed with the genetics it takes. — Nasser El Sonbaty

You may think you know, but you don't know you know until you can write it down. Research is not daydreaming. Explore your past, relive it, then write it down. In your head it's only memory, but written down it becomes working knowledge. Now with the bile of fear in your belly, write an honest, one-of-a-kind scene. — Robert McKee

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't. — Vladimir Kramnik

For pragmatist philosophers such as these, a belief is valued as true because it is useful, because it works, because it brings tangible benefits to human beings and other creatures. Siddhattha Gotama's Four Noble Truths are "true" not because they correspond to something real somewhere, but because, when put into practice, they can enhance the quality of your life. In — Stephen Batchelor

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans. — Ann Leckie

Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo — Andrew Bleiman

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections. — Frank Herbert

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces. — Robin Hayes

The people united will never be defeated. — Cesar Chavez