Mennie Quotes & Sayings

I like the OMG Girlz. They're real and they're friends. — Lil' Mama

Before I succumbed to the sweet lull of his voice, I made one last request. "Stay".
I was asleep before he could answer, but in my dreams I heard him reply forever. — S.L. Naeole

Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face. — The Catholic Church

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.
p 259 — Rachel Naomi Remen

history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains — Philip Parker

A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. — Federico Tesio

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. — Dambisa Moyo

Steel is the nation, went a Japanese saying. If the nation had a strong steel industry, then it would have a strong shipbuilding industry, and it would be a powerful, respectable nation again. Thus the efforts in the postwar years centered first and foremost on steel. The recovery did not come easily. At the end of the war only three of the nation's thirty-five blast furnaces were in operation, the others closed down as much from lack of raw material as from American bombs. The nation was poor, hard currency was limited, but the government poured much of its treasure into steel. By 1949 Japan had reached its prewar steel-production figures. — David Halberstam

The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. — Geoffrey Nunberg

Nothing can be more infuriating than being forgiven over and over again. — Elizabeth Peters

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Times to dream never cease, continue to dream big dreams, dreams after dreams. — Euginia Herlihy

They ... who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate. — Matthew Arnold

Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided. — Mark W. Boyer

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is. — Idries Shah