Menristek Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes Satan isn't busy- we're just being lazy. — Bradley Vinson

...the most complex physics question was a breeze compared to the contradictions of the human heart. — Elan Mastai

We protect. That's what it means to be a Lucidite. If something happened to one of you, I'd willingly walk through fire and suffer torment to bring you back. We don't leave each other behind and we don't turn our backs when someone needs us most. — Sarah Noffke

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. — Socrates

I come now to another part of your letter, which is the orthography, if I may call bad spelling orthography. You spell induce, enduce; and grandeur, you spell grandure; two faults, of which few of my house-maids would have been guilty. I must tell you, that orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters, or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix a ridicule upon him for the rest of his life; and I know a man of quality, who never recovered the ridicule of having spelled wholesome without the w. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Leadership: Lions led by donkeys. — Erich Ludendorff

Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves. — Henry David Thoreau

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire. — Louis Kronenberger

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and that is so by any application of common sense. The poetry and myths are the response of a prehistoric people to the Universe around them made on the basis of Quality. It is Quality, not dialectic, which is the generator of everything we know. — Robert M. Pirsig

Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal. — Orison Swett Marden

out of hardship and pain comes growth and strength. — Tyler May

And who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or her complexion. — Charles Dickens

When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world. — Barack Obama

Be proud of yourself. Try to eat well ... and when you cheat, enjoy it! — Diane Von Furstenberg

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning. — Edward VII