Merongrong Quotes & Sayings

No one really knew what went on in her relationship with Mike. No one even really knew her. Maybe she loved Mike more than he liked her. And wasn't that horrible? Wasn't that sad? But people forgot about that. They didn't see a tragedy, just a good story. To them, it was just some girl to point to and say, "Well, at least my life isn't as fucked up at that". — Jennifer Close

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany? — Erik Larson

You hungry?' Rudy asked.
Liesel replied, 'Starving.' For a book. — Markus Zusak

You can learn from everybody. — Sam Walton

All the best and worse things in us are bound up in the legacy of our family. As children we ardently trust in the stability or, in some cases, the instability we were born into. No matter which...we embraced what was decent while simultaneously suppressing what was deficient yet both traits weaved roots of faithfulness and consternation into the very fabric of who we've become. This now plays significantly into how we nurture our own families and how we relate to others. Our love, our fears, our insecurities, and our loyalties all draw from how we were raised as well as our inherent desire to shift its paradigm to optimistically better the life of not just our children...but our children's children. That's the gift and or the curse of a legacy. Which will you leave behind? — Jason Versey

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God. — Margaret Atwood

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. — Douglas William Jerrold

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live. — Robert Ballard

You don't want it, but the destiny oblige it — Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. — Jennifer Tour Chayes

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention ... — Mary Oliver