Mervyn Johns Quotes & Sayings

my life is a pond filled with stones - tossed and rippled by children at play — Tshombe Sekou

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all. — Publilius Syrus

Emma: What do you want from me, Jules? What do you want me to do?
Jules: What do I want? I want you to know what it's like. To be tortured al the time, night and day, desperately wanting what you know you should never want, what doesn't even want you back. to know how it feels to understand that a decision you made when you were twelve years old means you can never have the one thing that would make you truly happy. I want you to dream about only one thing and want onlny one thing and obsess about only one thing like I do ...
Emma: Julian...
Jules: ... like I do with you! Like I do with you, Emma. I thought you loved me. I don't know how I got that so wrong. — Cassandra Clare

The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The lovely thing about humanity is that at times one may be unaware of doing right, but one is always aware of doing wrong. — Vladimir Nabokov

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing. — Philip Glass

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. — E. M. Forster

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. — Dag Hammarskjold