Meliorator Quotes & Sayings

Honestly, I just want to keep people awake. Or at least give you one joke to go to bed with. — Jimmy Fallon

Rather tiring to a person whose idea of outdoor activity was taking her book outside to read. "All — Kristan Higgins

I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket. — Toby Keith

Apologies have nothing to do with you. They are balloons in the sky. They may never land. — Anonymous

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in — Arun Sarin

All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings. — Bridget Carpenter

When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant. They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontes and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow, some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Eliot; a reference to Mrs Gaskell and one would have done. — Virginia Woolf

I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport. — Mikhail Prokhorov

I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren. — Deborah Moggach

I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned. — P.L. Travers

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to. — Sophocles

Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need. — Joan D. Chittister

With the advent of 24-hour Sky News, the News Flash has been greatly devalued. Time was, when something unimaginably horrendous had to happen before it was deemed worthy of a News Flash. At least one, preferably two, and ideally all four horsemen of the apocalypse would have to be involved. — Declan Lynch

Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do. — S.I. Hayakawa