Minckler Homes Quotes & Sayings

Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross. — Thomas Huxley

I've got something that most pretty ladies haven't got - and that's a mind that's made up. — Margaret Mitchell

If people spent as much time studying as they spent hating, I'd be writing this from a goddamn moon-base. — Zach Weinersmith

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country. — Ronald Reagan

Love is an active action. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome. — Samuel Richardson

I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation. — Sandra Cisneros

It was as if these depths, constantly bridged over by a structure that was firm enough in spite of its lightness and of its occasional oscillation in the somewhat vertiginous air, invited on occasion, in the interest of their nerves, a dropping of the plummet and a measurement of the abyss. A difference had been made moreover, once for all, by the fact that she had, all the while, not appeared to feel the need of rebutting his charge of an idea within her that she didn't dare express, uttered just before one of the fullest of their later discussions ended. — Henry James

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty. — Archibald MacLeish

Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. — Brigham Young

When I die, they're going to have to bury me because if they don't, I'll stink up the place. — Rich Mullins

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range. — Garth Nix