Mevzum Quotes & Sayings

The work of poetry that it seemed she had been doing in her head for most of her life. — Alice Munro

Ashington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime. — Marcus Luttrell

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel. — Tiffany Madison

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point. — Leonard Ravenhill

Well, I want to go to South America."
"Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that."
"But you've never been to South America."
"South America hell! If you went there the way you feel now it would be exactly the same. This is a good town. Why don't you start living your life in Paris? — Ernest Hemingway,

We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are. — Orison Swett Marden

Seek comfort in the warmth of the morality of your choosing. Not in the depravity and fear of lost causes, in which you should turn away, before it sees you, as well.

- Plight, 2015 — Don Swann II

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs ... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics. — Snoop Dogg

Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're Making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision. — Bill Gates

It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment. — Rafael Yglesias

What do we get for our trouble and pain?
Just a rented room in Whalley Range. — Morrissey

My home is where my books are. — Ellen Thompson

To the astrologer, or at least to what I call the analytical astrologer, the natal chart virtually represents a living map to the kingdom of heaven which lies within. — Alice O. Howell

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid. — Hattie McDaniel

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me. — Howard Hodgkin