Merism Examples Quotes & Sayings

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal. — Charles Baudelaire

Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God. — Frithjof Schuon

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside. — Tony Alessandra

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took. — Frankie Avalon

We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think. — Sue Monk Kidd

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW. — Stephen Richards

I had seen the world as either white or black.
It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey. — Sanhita Baruah

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. — David Korten

It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night. — Ann Brashares

Esther was uncommon not because she was sick but because she was Esther, and she did not exist so that the rest of us could learn Important Lessons about Life.The meaning of her life-likethe meaning of any life- is a maddeningly ambiguous question shrouded in uncertainty — John Green

It is time now for us to rise from sleep. — Benedict Of Nursia

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste. — Lauren Oliver

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s. — Peter Jackson

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look. — Chinua Achebe

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it. — Macaulay Culkin