Meyerhoff Scholar Quotes & Sayings

We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend. — Tommy Franks

We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present. We do not have to suffer the waste of an amnesia that robs us of the lessons of the past rather than permit us to read them with pride as well as deep understanding. We know what it is to be lied to, and we know how important it is not lie to ourselves. We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about - survival and growth. — Audre Lorde

With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their faith, but I could not do it. I felt that I would be lying to myself, mocking what was sacred to me, if I were to go through with it. — Leo Tolstoy

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. — Thomas A. Edison

Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters. — Michael Fassbender

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past. — William Carlos Williams