Melchett Quotes & Sayings

If I have to hear one more story about what great fun it was working with you 'back in the city,' which I assume he means that slab of concrete and garbage on the Hudson River, I will not be responsible for the removal of his tongue. — Mark Del Franco

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;
not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann

Truth is one thing, poetry another. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Melchett said gloomily, 'Well, we know where we are
or rather, where we aren't!'
'Where we aren't expresses it rather better, sir. — Agatha Christie

I had just prayed, Oh God, please help me! I want to serve you, but I don't know how. I don't know what to do? ------ "WRITE A BOOK!" I was in shock. So, I stood silent, in wonderment. I was surprised that I had received an answer to my prayer. I didn't really expect to hear from God. Why should I? I was nobody, only a little dot on the earth. Why should the Great God of the universe speak to me? — Helen Goldie

Love is always creative, fear always destructive. — Emmet Fox

What you repeatedly do carries the clay to mold you into who you eventually become. Don't despise any tiny minute of the day; each counts so much! — Israelmore Ayivor

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it. — Anton Chekhov

Was bad language used?" asked Colonel Melchett.
"It depends on what you call bad language."
"Could you understand it?" I asked.
"Of course I could understand it."
"Then it couldn't have been bad language," I said.
Mrs. Price Ridley looked at me suspiciously.
"A refined lady," I explained, "is naturally unacquainted with bad language. — Agatha Christie

Embrace the pleasure. Reach for it. — Maya Banks

It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible
because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station. — Wangari Maathai

The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old. — Ted Hughes