Mentis Compos Quotes & Sayings

You look concerned." Books turned the wheel to screw down the press. "It's my new normative state," Amaranthe said. — Lindsay Buroker

HEAVENLY FATHER, thank you for hearing my prayer and rescuing me because you are faithful and good. Forgive me for the times when I have exhausted my meager resources before calling out to you. When I am poor and needy and my heart is full of pain, prompt me to run to you first and to find rest in your faithfulness and goodness. In you, O Lord, I put my trust. — Cheri Fuller

Money is the means and the ends of my mercenary existence. — Louisa May Alcott

A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or 'non compos mentis' ("no power of the mind") by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.' — Ayn Rand

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. — John Locke

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye. — Ken Kesey

Some people believe that if they keep their heads down and stick to their safe routine and trust that nothing bad will befall them, then it won't. They see things happening to others, but they think they're different; they're special; it could never happen to them. They believe that nothing can get better, but also that nothing can get worse. They're cowards, in one way, because they won't fight, but they're also brave, because they're willing to accept their lot in life. Glupava smelost, we called it. Foolish courage. — Samantha Shannon

Chocolate is not a matter of life and death
it's more important than that. — Jill Shalvis

Nothing quells anxiety like action! — Walter Inglis Anderson

I am a child of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog. — Dan Rather

Work is valued by the social value of the worker. — Gloria Steinem