Merton J Dingle Quotes & Sayings

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real. — Shannon Hale

The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system. — Lois Gibbs

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime. — Megan Hilty

Was enough to actually turn you into what you had to be. — J.R. Ward

started swimming with Mimi again. They were so busy — Tara Star

I have tried to keep some hold on the religion of my youth by interpreting its basic doctrines as symbols that gave popular expression to philosophic truths. I can rephrase "original sin" as man's inherited disposition to follow those instincts of pugnacity, sexual promiscuity, and greed which may have been necessary in the hunting stage of human history, but which need a variety of controls in an organized society that guarantees its members protection against violence, theft, and rape; we are born with the taint of ancestral passions in our blood. — Will Durant

The first person I click on can't be the right choice. — Amy B. Harris

I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much. — Seann William Scott

I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Saying sorry does not make you look small - it makes you look big. — Alexander McCall Smith

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall. — Rick Perlstein

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. — Robert A. Burton

God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord. — Richard Kadrey

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

At age 14, my belief systems began to change about myself, about God, about humans, about values, and about moral standards. I also began to align myself with the principles that are laid down by the Creator in the book called the Bible. — Myles Munroe