Mierken Quotes & Sayings

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown. — Napoleon Hill

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA. — Alicia Witt

There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire. — Frederick Lenz

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life. — Jenny Diski

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. — Aldrich Ames

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all. — David Brainerd

You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me. — Joe Cocker

Before all else, be armed. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Some say there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon But is that too far for you? Wouldn't you prefer your glimmers a little closer? Around the corner perhaps? Or even better on the kitchen table? Or in the fridge? Where you can see or hear or touch or smell them and take heart and take hope — Tom Skinner

Don't shoot fast, shoot good. — Clint Smith

Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency to be periodically stamped at a prescribed cost in order to retain its quality as money, or in analogous ways, have been on the right track; and the practical value of their proposals deserves consideration. — John Maynard Keynes

This may seem like a harsh view of our culture, and there are certainly trends in other directions, but when we deal with culture at the tacit assumption level we have to think clearly about what our assumptions actually are, quite apart from our espoused values. The result of a pragmatic, individualistic, competitive, task-oriented culture is that humility is low on the value scale. — Edgar H Schein

Knowledge and truth are different things. — Mark Lawrence

I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows. — Olivia Wilde