Compos Mentis Quotes

#1. A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or 'non compos mentis' ("no power of the mind") by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

John Caudwell

#3. Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

Ethel Waters

#4. The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

Mark Zandi

#5. The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

Jackson Browne

#6. The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Thomas Sowell