Merin Quotes & Sayings

There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States. — Huey Newton

When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear. — Felix Wantang

He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes, He who never asks is a fool forever. — Anonymous

Estrogen was one mean bitch. It caused zits and weight gain on the way in, weight gain and lethargy on the way out, and in between, there were twenty-one days of normalcy before the week of bitchiness, bloating, and bouts of insanity. She shrugged. The alternative was testosterone, and that made people stupid. Crazy beat the heck out of stupid any day. — Katie Graykowski

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. — Thomas A Kempis

Hospitality is a wonderful and rare thing, but if you wanna get a lady's attention, you don't send one of your lackeys to ask her over, you do it yourself. — K'wan

Like Dr. Johnson, I'm an Abstainer: I find it far easier to give up something altogether than to indulge moderately. And this distinction has profound implications for habits. — Gretchen Rubin

Adulation is
inexpensive
Except to him
who accepts
it.
It has cost
him
Himself. — Emily Dickinson

Siri whispered an answer to my unasked question. "No, Merin, one is never really too old. At least not too old to want the warmth and closeness. You decide, my love. I will be content either way." I decided. Towards the dawn we slept. — Dan Simmons

I think one begins to feel when things aren't important. I'm not sure how to put it. When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in it probably hold for you and you go looking for it. If it's not there, you sense it earlier and leave to go about your business. You just know more about what is, what isn't, and how little time there is to learn the difference. Do you understand, Merin? Do you follow me even a little bit? — Dan Simmons

Her head was on my shoulder and her breathing was so deep and regular that I thought her to be asleep. I was almost asleep myself when her warm hand slid up my leg and lightly cupped me. I was startled even as I began to stir and stiffen. Siri whispered an answer to my unasked question. "No, Merin, one is never really too old. At least not too old to want the warmth and closeness. You decide, my love. I will be content either way." I — Dan Simmons

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life. — David Trimble

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one. — Catherine M. Wilson

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. — Vivienne Westwood

In silence, alone with his conscious, he asks himself perhaps, 'What is honour, and isn't the condemnation of bloodshed a prejudice? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else. — Bill Vaughan

Shoeshine looked disappointed. "Don't do that, young fella." "Do what?" "Try and label everyone you meet." The man coughed again. "It's lazy. — Matt De La Pena