Melker Karlsson Quotes & Sayings

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit. — Honore De Balzac

Life is a gift, but living is a choice. — Debasish Mridha

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. — David Brinkley

I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality ... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice. — Clarence Thomas

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king. — William Shakespeare

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird. — Alicia Keys

Greatness only comes in two flavors; God and His people. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages. — S. Jay Olshansky

You know, with talented people ...
They draw people to themselves, and without even trying to, they tear them to shreds. — Kamoshida Hajime

The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a black child needs is to see a black doctor, and then this child will think, "Oh, I can become a doctor too." — Richard Rodriguez

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. — G. Stanley Hall

Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself ... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years! — Tony Blair

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting. — Mike Krzyzewski

Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Love always requires courage and involves risk. — M. Scott Peck