Mentrasto Quotes & Sayings

Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time. — Solomon

Humility is truth. — Desiderius Erasmus

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. — James Thurber

If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it? — George Carlin

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real. — Tennessee Williams

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. — Philip Larkin

We have been content to drivel along with our current educational systems, most of which neglect all the essential things and leave their victims for all intents and purposes quite untrained. - Aldous Huxley, 1934 — Nicholas Murray

Heath had been there to help her, letting her draw from his strength. Did she have enough strength to sustain him in the same way? — Lisa Kleypas

It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion. — Calvin Coolidge

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty. — William O. Douglas

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs. — Ellen Willis

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart. — J.I. Packer