Merwan Selman Quotes & Sayings

A poisonous snake is not dangerous, not any more than a loaded gun is dangerous - in each case, if you handle it properly. The thing that made that coral snake dangerous was that I hadn't known what it was, what it could do. If, in my ignorance, I had handled it carelessly, it would have killed me as casually and as innocently as a kitten scratches. — Robert A. Heinlein

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'. — Gordon Taylor

I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. — George Soros

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre. — William Kircher

Beauty will save the world — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He looked like a brand-new heartbreak waiting to happen. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir. — Leo Rosten

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone. — Thomas Mann

Young children begin very early to internalize information that either encourages or discourages self-disclosure. Cues are intuitively understood. Most of what we feel is unexamined and articulated. Cultural norms are unwittingly absorbed. We learn when to speak and when to stay silent. - Pam MacRae (Ch. 2) — Rosalie De Rosset

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally ... — Louisa May Alcott

I assume we'll make a stop in London?" Ainsley asked. "I can't imagine you'd run straight through to Paris tonight, would you? If I could find a room at a respectable hotel, I can sort through my things and decide what I truly need to take. Isabella thought the lot, but I think she is optimistic."
Cameron unstuck his tongue from the roof of his mouth. "We'll stop in London," he said, his voice gruff. "Not in a hotel. In Hart's house; he keeps it ready. In the morning, we'll marry. — Jennifer Ashley

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process. — Carol Moseley Braun

The wind had its arms around them. The sea dandled them on its knee. — Tom Robbins

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed. — Tracy Letts