Mersinol Quotes & Sayings

I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail. — Jessie Snow

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. — Hillary Clinton

Reality is what I make it. That is what I have said I believed. Then I look at the hell I am wallowing in, nerves paralyzed, action nullified - fear, envy, hate: all the corrosive emotions of insecurity biting away at my sensitive guts. Time, experience: the colossal wave, sweeping tidal over me, drowning, drowning. How can I ever find that permanence, that continuity with past and future, that communication with other human beings that I crave? Can I ever honestly accept an artificial imposed solution? How can I justify, how can I rationalize the rest of my life away? — Sylvia Plath

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory. — John Lancaster Spalding

[W]hen habitus encounters a social world of which it is the product, it is like a "fish in water": it does not feel the weight of the water, and it takes the world about itself for granted could, to make sure that I am well understood, explicate Pascal's formula: the world encompasses me (me comprend) but I comprehend it (je le comprends) precisely because it comprises me. It is because this world has produced me, because it has produced the categories of thought that I apply to it, that it appears to me as self-evident. — Pierre Bourdieu

Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy. — Heidi Schulz

Somehow great leaders reach deep down in their souls and find the power within them to overcome despair. We must too ... if we want to accomplish great things in our lives! — Timothy Pina

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards. — Augusten Burroughs

A lot of learned men think people really are the food they've eaten. — Colonel Sanders

You have no enemy until you make one. — Morgan Llywelyn

Our spiritual ancestors have also given birth to us, and they, tol, continue to give birth to us. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, 'You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?' I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there — Hilary Swank

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright. — Sean Covey

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child. — Isabelle Adjani