Mersiha Wiersma Quotes & Sayings

That's what poems are for,
unlivable love. — Tess Gallagher

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character. — O.J. Simpson

It was like a meeting between two iron knights of the old time, not for material gain but for principle - honor denied with honor, courage denied with courage - the deed done not for the end but for the sake of the doing, put to the ultimate test and proving nothing save the finality of death and the vanity of all endeavor. — William Faulkner

The human race seems to love nothing more than a long detour. — Stephen R. Lawhead

At Babel, men built a tower to make a name for themselves. At Shechem, Abraham did not build anything to make himself a name; he built an altar for calling on the name of the Lord (12:8). — Witness Lee

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them — Alexander Pope

But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we each see it in the same way, so we can all agree - can't we? - that no matter how confident we may appear to others, inside we are all sobbing, scared and uncertain for much of the time. Or perhaps it's just me.
Oh God, perhaps it really is just me.
Actually it doesn't really matter, when you come to think of it. If it is just me, then you are reading the story of some weird freak. You are free to treat this book like science fiction, fantasy or exotic travel literature. Are there really men like Stephen Fry on this planet? Goodness, how alien some people are. And if I am not alone, then neither are you, and hand in hand we can marvel together at the strangeness of the human condition. — Stephen Fry

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that. — Gordon Bethune

Disillusionment is not truth. — Mason Cooley

I have long carried this load of griefs in the cage of my heart. Now I have given them to you. I hope you are strong enough to hold them. — Qais Akbar Omar

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures — Hayao Miyazaki