Mellema Painting Quotes & Sayings

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest. — Walter Raleigh

If you hear about your brother something of which you disapprove, seek from one to — Tariq Ramadan

When she walked into my house the first time and I laid eyes on her, I was attracted to her. That part was easy. But then I got to know her. She wasn't like any other girl I'd ever known. She was so determined, when she should have been beat down. Her life had given her shit, and she was fighting to live. She wasn't going to back down or give up. I admired her. Then I got a taste, and I was sunk. She's everything I want to be. — Abbi Glines

The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think — Helen Simonson

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is. — Natalie Goldberg

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. — Jane Addams

Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another. If it wasn't drugs, then there was always something else. — Brom

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies. — Camille Paglia

Ever since Aristotle described three different kinds of friends - friends of utility, of pleasure, and of virtue - we have known that a set of friends can be a diverse lot. We can have friends we only see at basketball games or book club, friends we see nearly every day at work, and friends who are our confidants. Specialization is fine - we do not expect to like all of our friends in the same way or for the same reasons. At — Bella DePaulo

The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less than the diagnosis and cure of the human malady. We follow twelve generations of New York City's Steenwycks family through their forays into phrenology, mesmerism, radium therapy and similar misadventures, a historically rich narrative that Menger-Anderson delivers in striking, elegant prose and with a sure eye for detail. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch. — Ben Fountain

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to accomplish this task. — Theodore Epp

Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world. — Michael Parenti