Merles Dogs Quotes & Sayings

Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge. — Ban Ki-moon

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us. — Anais Nin

Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes. — Baltasar Gracian

Seyyed Hassan Modarres: "However good the guarddog is, it stops being useful the moment it bites the hands of its master's child, and must be banished — Christopher De Bellaigue

Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping! — Sophie Kinsella

General [De Gaulle], you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies — Clementine Churchill

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies. — Jake Barton

I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that. — Louie Giglio

She twisted a piece of his T-shirt, then let it go and laid her palm flat against his chest, right over his heart, and he could suddenly feel it again: the steady thump of it drowning out all his other thoughts. It was more drumbeat than countdown, more metronome than ticking clock, and he felt himself carried forward with each muffled beat, as if hope were a rhythm, a song he'd only just discovered. — Jennifer E. Smith

Homer invented these fictions and attributed human powers to the gods; I wish he had attributed divine powers to us — Augustine Of Hippo

He is lost in Agamemnon and Odysseus' wily double meanings, their lies and games of power. They have confounded him, tied him to a stake and baited him. I stroke the soft skin of his forehead. I would untie him if I could. If he would let me. — Madeline Miller

Like Jesus said 'blessed are the lazy who lie on boats, for they shall inherit a suntan — Nicholas Sparks

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen. — Lydia Lunch

It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.' — Josh Dun