Mengeringhausen Quotes & Sayings

The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life. — Katja Michael

When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive. — Virginia H. Pearce

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. — Francis Bacon

You can't keep failing. You can't keep being defiant and stubborn. You have to make changes. You need to turn your life around. — Khali Raymond

Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will. — Alister E. McGrath

At the present time he was a man of perhaps forty-five years of age, short and heavy-set, with a bullet-shaped head that rested on broad, ape-like shoulders. His thick torso and bulging paunch were supported by a pair of spindly legs that contrasted oddly with the upper portions of his beefy body. — H.P. Lovecraft

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. — John Leonard

As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

During the 41 years that have elapsed since Costa Rica abolished its army, our fundamental freedoms have never been threatened, nor do we know a shameful history of repression. — Oscar Arias