Meraka Institute Quotes & Sayings

It always seemed to me that [Henry James] had a kind of rush of words to the head and never stopped to sort them out properly. — Christopher Morley

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God. — Bob Marley

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat. — Walter Lippmann

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan. — Catherine McCormack

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments. — Gunnar Myrdal

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. — Bram Stoker

If it ain't tubes, we don't do it. — Richard Smalley

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness. — Bertrand Russell

What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. — Frank Abagnale

You can't get on with the rest of your life if you are forever taking your spectacles off and inspecting them; indeed, one of the problems with spectacles is that if you break them you may not be able to see properly in order to mend them yourself. So it is with worldviews: when you are questioned about some or all of your worldview, and you have (as it were) to take it off and look at it in order to see what's going on, you may not be able to examine it very closely because it is itself the thing through which you normally examine everything else. The resulting sense of disorientation can be distressing. It can lead to radical change. It shakes the very foundation of persons and societies. Sometimes, it seems, it can turn persecutors into apostles ... — N. T. Wright