Mikelwj Quotes & Sayings

She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed. — Masahiro Sakurai

Even though I was growing up in a land that had been tormented since the dawn of time, I refused to consider the world as a battlefield. — Yasmina Khadra

Savour a slow-paced contented life. — Fennel Hudson

Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning. — Edward James Olmos

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind. — Mary Ritter Beard

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I shall seize fate by the throat. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

First time I kissed you, I lost my legs. — Dave Matthews

Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back — Sara Gruen

Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy. — Paulo Coelho

The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula. — Klemens Von Metternich

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet ... — Victoria Moran

All one night we sat, with a friend of his, in a big dark roadhouse outside of Philadelphia, arguing and arguing about mysticism, and smoking more and more cigarettes and gradually getting drunk. Eventually, filled with enthusiasm for the purity of heart which begets the vision of God, I went on with them into the city, after the closing of the bars, to a big speak-easy where we completed the work of getting plastered. — Thomas Merton

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them. — Rebecca West