Merkelson Quotes & Sayings

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Can they, like get fingerprints from her neck? Can they catch the guy that way?"
"This guy isn't an amateur. He probably used gloves."
"How do you know he isn't an amateur, Sherlock?"
"There's bruising on the left-hand knuckles, and on the sides of both hands. Probably would be on the right-hand knuckles, too, if we had them."
"She hit him," Howie said. "She fought back. — Barry Lyga

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. — Alfred Adler

Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing. — Jeff Weiner

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee. — William Shakespeare

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used
not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely. — Lolo Jones

Psychiatric diagnoses are considered to be technical and bounded; you are either in or out. In contrast, a biblical perspective puts many interpersonal differences on a continuum: people may have more or less of something. This is relevant to sins, spiritual gifts, weaknesses, and character qualities. — Edward T. Welch

There is no true life within a false life. — Theodor W. Adorno

Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities? ... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space. — Anais Nin

As you think about the future ... give thanks and trust God ... Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us - which we do not deserve. — Billy Graham

...the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Be yourself and the right people will love you. — Taylor Swift