Mereu Verde Quotes & Sayings

All these crushing questions; but whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same. And it would be astonishing to find how soon the change is felt if we had no kindred changes to compare with it. To share lodgings with a brilliant dinner companion, or to see your favourite politician in the Ministry, may bring about changes quite as rapid: in these cases too we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities. — George Eliot

Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing. — Michael Porter

Ethan Sullivan, registered smart-ass — Chloe Neill

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. — John Ruskin

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating. — Anita Loos

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. — Alan Bleasdale

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary. — Tom Skerritt

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness. — Andrew Bird

On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other. — Eduard Hanslick

I just hope, in all honesty, that Steve will walk if he hits it, you know what I mean? I would hate to be bringing up my bent finger as a controversial decision. I hope he'll go nice and easy - caught in the covers or bowled middle stump. I just hope he doesn't get his pads in the way or his bat's wide enough to get a thin edge [on Steve Waugh's last innings] — Billy Bowden