Mirtoselect Quotes & Sayings

I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being. — Katori Hall

He was wrong; he knew he was when it was too late for him to stop just as a drunkard reaches a point where it is too late for him to stop, where he promises himself that he will and maybe believes he will or can but it is too late. — William Faulkner

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom. — Randy Forbes

The lessons of the past guide us in the present (...) Our Faith is strengthened by the knowledge of those who have gone before us. — Anthony Ryan

Increasingly the individuals who want to live together are, or more precisely are becoming, the legislators of their own way of life, the judges of their own transgressions, the priests who absolve their own sins and the therapists who loosen the bonds of their own past. — Ulrich Beck Y Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

"Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted for kids before "Sesame Street," but really, it was, it's kind of going back to our roots, when we start to get adult. This show gets very adult sometimes, and that's because of the audience. — Brian Henson

One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life. — Annia Ciezadlo

You know, it's a tremendous responsibility to try to tell people how to get to heaven.6 — David Frost

I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing Asia is to reconcile Asia's rapid economic development with care for the environment. — Tommy Koh

There will always be obstacles but there is always a way to accomplish the objective if it is right and for the benefit of mankind. — James May

During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the '80s and '90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold. — Jahangir Khan

I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter. — Liane Moriarty

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own. — Ted Williams

in conversation with her, the idea was often suggested to my mind - how frequently ministers address. children upon the subject of religion as they ought to address those of mature age, and address those of mature age as they ought to address children. It is children who need instruction. It is the older who need impression. Children are sufficiently ready to feel. The danger is, that their sensibilities will outrun their knowledge and judgment. Older persons are slow to feel Their danger is, that they will not have feeling enough to impel them to obey their judgment. — Ichabod Spencer