Mennesker P Quotes & Sayings

Enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them. — Emily Carr

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon. — David Mitchell

If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be. — Jo Coudert

I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts. — Rich Mullins

important question was: What has this pain come to teach me? The answer had arisen from the place where all wisdom is born - out of the crucible of heartbreak. — Susan Plunket

Horrle was nodding gravely, humoring him, probably thinking that out of all these two hundred fun-loving people it was just his luck to have run into a doom merchant. McIntyre had committed the sin of pessimism, of course, forgetting, as a Brit, that out here optimism was more than a state of mind; optimism was a philosophy. — Christopher Hudson

I am not here to answer your questions. To answer would imply that we conceded some slight possibility of truth to your assertions of innocence, and we do not concede that. Truth is something which is to be had from us, not from you. Ours is the most remarkable government in the history of mankind; because we, and only we, have accepted as a working principle what every sage has taught and every government has feigned to accept: the power of the truth. And because we do, we rule as no other government has ever ruled. You have often asked me what your crime is, why we detain you. It is because we know you are lying - do you understand what I am telling you? — Gene Wolfe

Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha! — Dave Grohl

Always make your expectations known, she used to say. That way you never get hurt. — Sarah Addison Allen

I thought I was looking at a building at first: that it was some kind of tent, as high as a country church, made of grey and pink canvas that flapped in the gusts of storm wind, in that orange sky: a lopsided canvas structure aged by weather and ripped by time. And then it turned and I saw its face ... — Neil Gaiman

Meditation ... never leave the body without it! — Frederick Lenz

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control. — James Hansen

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone. — John Dingell

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe