Merwyn Miller Quotes & Sayings

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death. — James Madison

Horror writers are specialists in the worst-case scenario. — Richard Laymon

If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it. — Bryan Kest

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. — Joseph Hall

Whatever age we are is the age we've always been. — Graydon Carter

It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."
I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself.
"Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea."
"The board-schools."
"Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future. — Arthur Conan Doyle

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people. — Jeannette Walls

My mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures. — Lady Caroline Lamb

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work. — Markus Zusak

Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity. — Francis Bacon