Meritissimus Quotes & Sayings

The right thing to do is so easy to see when you're seventeen years old and don't have to make any big decisions. When you know that no matter what you do, someone will take care of you and fix everything. But when you're grown up, the world is not that black and white, and the right thing doesn't a tidy little arrow pointing to it. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

The present presses automatically on you. The future does not. To attend to the future requires bandwidth, which scarcity taxes. When scarcity taxes our bandwidth, we become even more focused on the here and now. We need cognitive resources to gauge future needs, and we need executive control to resist present temptations. As it taxes our bandwidth, scarcity focuses on the present, and leads us to borrow. — Sendhil Mullainathan

'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests. — Jonah Hill

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness. — Sun Tzu

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. — Frantz Fanon

He was so disrespectful that it was believed that he spoke truth.
("The Undying Thing") — Barry Pain

On any ball hit
to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul. — Joe

I have found that it's not so much how you start, but how you finish that counts." -Declan — Brittany L. Engels

Hey," he said, leaning back in his chair and spreading his legs wide.
"I'm more than willing to change my last name and give up my citizenship for you. I'll even walk two steps behind you in public after we're married, like a proper prince consort. But the birth control thing is going to have to be up to you, because obviously nothing can contain what these bad boys are packing."
"Did you seriously just refer to your testicles as 'bad boys'?"
"I did. It's not as if you didn't have warning, Mia. As has been previously stated - by that bastion of fine reporting, InTouch, no less - I am the world's greatest lover."
"More like the world's greatest idiot. — Meg Cabot

Any day now, I told myself, I am going to wake up and know what I am doing. It — Jodi Picoult

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. — William Manchester

Get up," James finally said, his tone indecipherable. "I don't need a patient dying from pneumonia on me tonight. — L. Jayne

If your thoughts are not right, your actions won't be right. — Bohdi Sanders

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. — Paul Shepard