Melcer Flores Quotes & Sayings

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"? — Elvis Costello

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned. — Ernest Hello

You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold. — Ken Kesey

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational. — Ian McEwan

I am where God wills me to be, and so I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me, His power defends me, His grace sanctifies me, His mercy encompasses me, His joy sustains me and all will go well with me. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

I guess in some people's lives, no one tells you what to be, and so you be nothing. — James Franco

I won't give people that have doubted me the satisfactory of seeing me defeated. I will keep trying as hard as I can, because my coach told me it isn't about winning, it's about improving what I personally am capable of. So every time I make it through practice, I think about how I got just a little better than before. — Heather Thompson

I go to the window, I spot a fly under the curtain, I corner it in a muslin trap and move a murderous forefinger toward it. This moment is not in the program, it's something apart, timeless, incomparable, motionless, nothing will come of it this evening or later ... Mankind is asleep ... Alone and without a future in a stagnant moment, a child is asking murder for strong sensations. Since I'm refused a man's destiny, I'll be the destiny of a fly. I don't rush matters, I'm letting it have time enough to become aware of the giant bending over it. I move my finger forward, the fly bursts, I'm foiled! Good God, I shouldn't have killed it! It was the only being in all creation that feared me; I no longer mean anything to anyone. I, the insecticide, take the victim's place and become an insect myself. I'm a fly, I've always been one. This time I've touched bottom. — Jean-Paul Sartre

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked. — Orson Scott Card

I'm a radical, and I always have been. — Mort Sahl