Mentaiko Quotes & Sayings

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years
it took the experience of lived time
to realize that they really are the same thing. — Elif Batuman

Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other. — Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone. — Dan Howell

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others. — Rem Koolhaas

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife — Joaquin Miller

A beautiful night with a beautiful woman is supposed to end that night; you're not supposed to go work for her afterwards. — Lance Charnes

I don't talk about my personal life - or what I do with no females. Just know that I love women. A lot. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work ... — Antonio Gramsci

This is a subtle insight: the flexible overcomes the strong and unyielding. — Lao-Tzu

Relative terms do not make for relative truths. All truth values are absolute in their own context, because all statements either correspond to reality or they do not. — Douglas Beaumont

We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe. — Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

The latter is useful for predictive purposes only to the extent that the individual participant, in the market relationship, is guided by economic interest. Through the use of this specific assumption about human motivation, scholars have been able to establish for economic theory a limited claim as the only positive social science. — Anonymous

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it. — Dolly Parton

That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers
the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think. — Agatha Christie