Measure Rite Quotes

#1. Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

Joseph Sobran

#2. All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

Shantideva

#3. History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

Margaret MacMillan

#4. It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

Lewis H. Lapham

#5. At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

Jack Kerouac

#6. What makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)

Roland Smith

#7. Remember me as I tried to be, not as I was." ~Urza, The Brother's War

Jeff Grubb

#8. Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

Paul Ekman

#9. Sennheiser HD280, Audio-Technica MTX-150, and V-MODA Crossfade 100. All

Mike Cernovich

#10. This was about two sides warring for love.
She and Tedros fighting for Good. Sophie and the School Master fighting for Evil.
Once upon a time, she and her best friend tried to find a happy ending together. Now only one of them could come out alive.

Soman Chainani

#11. In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

Denis Johnson

#12. Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

Stefan Zweig

#13. Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

Rainer Maria Rilke