Salvos Merrill Quotes & Sayings

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that. — Richard Dawkins

She just keeps kissing my scars. Every scar. She knows about them all. She watched them all appear and heal. Sophie's lips against me make every punch, every kick, every wound, every scar worth it. — Chelsea Fine

Society was in a fearful state. When human life was held at so cheap a rate and when brutal courage was at such a premium; when men had no compunction about getting drunk, if rum could be had; when it was no robbery to take all a Tory had, and no murder to hang him; when children grew to manhood who had never spent a month in the schoolroom, and who had never heard a sermon, it was not to be expected that the morals of the people would be high, or their manners refined, or their intelligence considerable. — George Gilman Smith

Virgin Mary was said to have appeared there. I was pretty sure she'd had her hands joined in prayer and was crying, presumably over the inhumanity of it all, and not due to sunscreen in the eye or a loose eyelash. — Ellie O'Neill

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it. — Gil Scott-Heron

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. — Joseph Hall

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. — Thomas Carlyle

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion. — Fiona Shaw

You remind me of my late sister, little one. As I once told her, the headstrong may win many battles ... but only the strong of heart will survive the war. — Brian K. Vaughan

In other words there is something otherworldly about our existence here --something more than matter, more than the body and mind we have been discussing -- in short, something fundamentally and profoundly abstract. And I mention this aspect because it is not at all obvious, indeed scarcely notices by the great majority of us as we go about our daily lives. — Guy Murchie

If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie. — Leonard Maltin

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable. — Jules Verne

The truly sacred attitude toward life is in no sense an escape from the sense of nothingness that assails us when we are left alone with ourselves. — Thomas Merton