Menzorrax Quotes & Sayings

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. — David Souter

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst. — Meg Ryan

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven. — Winston Churchill

You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book
if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that's otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn't fiction. This is something that every child, smitten by books, understands immediately, though it's not at all a childish idea about the importance of reading. — Philip Roth

[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations. — Horace Rowan Gaither

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life. — Gabriela Sabatini

Personal perception is the manifestation of an actual synthesis which, by a continued effort, repeated at every instant, brings back to the unity of the Ego all the phenomena which are produced, whatever be their origin. — Anonymous

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God. — Ray Comfort

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day. — John Boyle O'Reilly