Merrivale Quotes & Sayings

Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer - the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That's all you need. — Anne Lamott

But the curator said nothing mattered so long as it looked all right to the ignorant." [Lady Brace]
"Sort of government motto. I see." [Sir Henry Merrivale] — Carter Dickson

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many — Martin Luther King Jr.

Many never become sweet; they rot even in the summer. It is cowardice that holdeth them fast to their branches. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America. — Mireille Guiliano

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. — Alfred Whitney Griswold

Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose. — Steve Maraboli

Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them. — Rafik Schami

Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness. Thy are living in adultery, have already sold their souls to Satan, and (whether their acts are based on ignorance or lust or both) they will be damned in eternity. — Bruce R. McConkie

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive. — Nikki Reed

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. — Thomas Sowell

I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to
remember. They can never hurt you again. — Karen Marie Moning

We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today, — Carolyn Porco

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses. — Thomas A Kempis

Be patient.
Be persistent. — Lailah Gifty Akita