Mercuries 3d Quotes & Sayings

The fate of the country ... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning. — Henry David Thoreau

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. — Marcel Proust

Ridiculous. You guys are going to have the most boring documentary on earth," I said and stormed inside.
"Could you walk in the building again, but slower and don't slam the door," Hugo called after me. — Heather O'Neill

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear. — Jules Verne

We know we are falling from grace, millennium. — Robbie Williams

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. — Karen Blixen

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it. — Roger Michell

O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helpless agony before the oppressor?
O Lord, come down from Olympus,
shake your golden thyrsus
and stifle the murderer's insolent fury. — Euripides

For most men the world is centered in self, which is misery: to have one's world centered in God is peace. — Donald Hankey

Anger is like
A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him. — William Shakespeare