Mellon Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. However, assumed into Heaven, the Mother of God now requires our cooperation. She seeks souls who will consecrate themselves entirely to her, who will become in her hands effective instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spreading of God's kingdom upon earth. — Maximilian Kolbe

I agree, and when the time is right, we'll be delighted to meet with him, Damon said. — L.J.Smith

I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar. — Douglas Booth

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster. — Gustav Mahler

Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible. — M.T. Dismuke

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial. — Mitch Kapor

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men. — Little Richard

Strength training with weights really does improve running. — Dana L. Ayers

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,
whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,
which afterwards subside into cheerful peace. — George Eliot

I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life. — Hubert Selby Jr.

When you eat, eat. When you sleep, sleep. When you fight, fight. — Matthew Woodring Stover

The Safavid brotherhood was founded as a Sunni order, and historians are uncertain when its leaders adopted Shi'ism or even if they did so before the reign of Isma'il. It is known that for a few years during Isma'il's youth, he was sheltered by a local Shi'a ruler and may have acquired his Shi'a convictions from this experience. Whatever the sources for his belief, Isma'il became a fervent Shi'a and was determined to make all of the inhabitants in the territories under his control adopt Shi'ism. When he proclaimed himself shah in 1501, he also proclaimed Twelver Shi'ism to be the official and compulsory religion of the state. — William L. Cleveland

Often referred to herself as a bitch. It was a way of insulting herself and asserting herself simultaneously. She acted like a bitch when she was threatened. It was the only effective self-defense she had learned. The more frightened ... felt, the harder she lashed out. It was her offense and her defense ... the bitch was also ... the poet. She was a very sensitively constructed sending and receiving mechanism, extremely vulnerable and extremely wary. — Ruth Harris