Merkkleding Quotes & Sayings

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs. — John Stuart Mill

For the sentimentalism and emotionalism which have infested our country, we should substitute hard common sense. Pacific habits do not insure peace or immunity from national insult and aggression. — Douglas MacArthur

I think it's natural for anyone that participates in a public debate to advocate for the most extreme version that they can, particularly if they believe that government tends to compromise. — Julius Genachowski

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. — W. H. Auden

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

It is for the honor of Jesus that we endure the trial of our faith with sacred joy. Let — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

that for understanding the spread of behaviors in social networks, we need to take into account not just the power of influential nodes but also the extent to which these influential nodes have access to easily influenceable people. — David Easley

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge ... but their persistence at something, — Eric Schmidt

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty. — Abraham Lincoln

Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for. — George Washington

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other. — J.G. Ballard