Merindol Massacre Quotes & Sayings

I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the masses of dead flesh, at all the stories that are now forever silenced. — Carrie Ryan

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Holding a hand over my eyes, I look up at him. "Thanks, I'm glad were ... friends." I say the word friends deliberately, letting the emphasis get my point across. His mouth curves with a slow smile. "I've never wanted to be your friend, Jacinda." My heart stutters in my chest. Standing in the pouring rain, I watch him walk away. — Sophie Jordan

The field of U.S. cancer care is organized around a medical monopoly that ensures a continuous flow of money to the pharmaceutical companies, medical technology firms, research institutes, and government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and quasi-public organizations such as the American Cancer Society (ACS). — John Diamond

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out. — Brittany Snow

A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture. — Anonymous

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid. — Ayad Akhtar

It's just that when you're trying to balance so many things at the same time, it's inevitable that something's going to fall. — Susane Colasanti

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am. — Anthony De Mello

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all. — Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke