Merentes Quotes & Sayings

Because the things you have, and the neighborhood you live in, doesn't have anything to do with what kind of human being you are. — Julia Spencer-Fleming

If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole. — Teddy Wilson

He feels it as a single indescribable shape, something brailled out for him against a ground or backdrop of he knows not what, and it hurts him, in the poet's phrase, like the world hurts God. — William Gibson

We have lived under the edge of doom, and feel ourselves now facing the long-threatened fate. But hear this Emrys: fate is made by men, not gods. — Mary Stewart

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm. — Edward Abbey

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil. — Jon Corzine

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press. — Douglas Booth

The Commodore taught the financial world how to corner stocks, something illegal these days. But back then it was quite a feat. — Kenneth L. Fisher

My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows. — Jools Holland

Inhabiting a place that could not be home, they were like actors compelled to play themselves. — John Banville

Eleven minutes. That was how long the entire homicidal portrait lasted: one boy's life destroyed in less time than it took to cook a hamburger. — Maggie Stiefvater

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.] — Jane Austen

A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.] — Statius