Merylsward Quotes & Sayings

There is the Toilet Monster, who comes into the bathroom if you sit on the toilet for too long. — Abby Hanlon

Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing — Robert Hubner

But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed. — Dan B. Allender

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting. — Billy Connolly

He knew that he was very near achieving the General Temporal Theory that the Ioti wanted so badly for their spaceflight and their prestige. He knew also that he had not achieved it and might never do so. He had never admitted either fact clearly to anyone. Before he left Anarres, he had thought the thing was in his grasp.
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He wasn't quite sure he was ready to publish. There was something not quite right, something that needed a little refining. As he had been working ten years on the theory, it wouldn't hurt to take a little longer, to get it polished perfectly smooth. The little something not quite right kept looking wronger. A little flaw in the reasoning. A big flaw. A crack right through the foundations...The night before he left Anarres he had burned every paper he had on the General Theory. He had come to Urras with nothing. For half a year he had, in their terms, been bluffing them.

Or had he been bluffing himself? — Ursula K. Le Guin

I feel like everybody, whether you have one follower or a million followers, has an opportunity to either positively or negatively affect people. — Tyler Oakley

You're lucky you didn't know him back in his tech phase. There was this time in our second year when we were living in the same house. Kitchen table kept wobbling so Landis shoved this metal saucer under one of the legs. Wasn't until two weeks later we found out it was a land mine. — Benedict Jacka

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up. — James Cameron

Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables. — Yotam Ottolenghi

We are merely ghost flowers under the shade of the moon
Many shades of secret sorrows blanket our eyes
We spend our lives and our souls
Searching-
Longing-
Waiting-
For a little light to shine and heal our broken halo's — Steven A. Williams

Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort — Gordon B. Hinckley

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations. — Joe Barton

I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes. — David Ricardo

A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. — Chanakya