Menetrendek Quotes & Sayings

Life, it turns out, isn't poetry! And do you know why? Because it's so resistant to criticism! — Andrzej Sapkowski

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. — Compay Segundo

I saw power, yet meekness, forcefulness, yet gentleness, discipline, yet compassion. I had never seen eyes like His. — Chuck Black

So much of our future lies in preserving our past. — Peter Westbrook

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. — Plautus

If we truly believe and understand how omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God is, we should know He is better equipped to lead our life than we are. — Tiffany L. Jackson

We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I'd pick up the New York Times and see myself mangled all over the Op-Ed page... And then beaten into a bloody coma the next evening by some hired thugs in an alley behind the National Press Building..... — Hunter S. Thompson

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding. — Janine Turner

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
[Verse 223] — Gautama Buddha

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. — R. Buckminster Fuller

From The Twelve Enlightenments
Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think it's you is not the main protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, you are not breathing; breath is naturally happening to you. You can purposely end your own life, but you cannot purposely keep your own life going. The expression, "My life" is actually an oxymoron, a result of ignorance and mistaken assumption. You don't posses life; life expresses itself through you. Your body is a flower that life let bloom, a phenomenon created by life. — Ilchi Lee

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy. — Harry A. Blackmun