Mercilus Quotes & Sayings

Anything can be a bucket if you try hard enough and believe. — Abraham Lincoln

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Being alone is easier than having a family. When you have a family, you are responsible to each other. It's easier to navigate the world without that burden. — Zachary Jernigan

The assertion that only sex is power and the arrogation of creativity to the masculine sex and the rendering of all creativity as sexual - this is patriarchal aesthetics. Patriarchal passion sees violent sex as the essential creative act, even aesthetically, through a sort of metaphysical transubstantiation. This is their romantic belief that sex with the Master can produce the artistic spirit in the student. Male creativity is thus born in another, her work is given depth through the violent transgression of her boundaries. — Somer Brodribb

When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect. — Giordano Bruno

Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic. - The Library at Night — Alberto Manguel

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later. — Rachel Maddow

What you want in life is possible to achieve. Find the courage and begin the work — Lailah Gifty Akita

You're very welcome," she said, giving my hair a hard tug. "You should be used to being gawked at by now."
"And yet I'm not."
"Well, if it gets too bad, give me a signal, and I'll get up on the banquet table, toss my skirt over my head, and do a little dance. That way no one will be looking at you. — Leigh Bardugo

Your heart may tell you one thing, but it is the Word of God that must bear witness in this matter; any other testimony is of no value. — John Bunyan

Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF? — Paul Di Filippo