Mecklenburg County Quotes

#1. Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Vincent Van Gogh

#2. I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

Dan Harmon

#3. Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Richard J. Foster

#4. The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.

Maureen Dowd

#5. Rate your individual acts as good or bad, if you like. Seek to perform as many good ones, and as few bad ones, as possible.

Oliver Burkeman

#6. The only solution was to try to unmake the world, to make it black and silent and uninhabited again, to return to the moment before the Big Bang, in the beginning when there was the Word, and to live in that vacuous uncreated space alone with the Word.

John Green

#7. Ooks look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

Julian Barnes

#8. Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Fidel Castro

#9. The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. Come on, the all-knowing cait sith has returned, and we've been ordered to move out.

-Ash to Ariella

Julie Kagawa

#11. The wisdom of God and the knowledge of His spiritual principles are accessible to the sons of God

Sunday Adelaja

#12. You watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

Steve Vai

#13. It was a very costly love. A very powerful love. A very rugged, painful love. The meaning of Christmas is the celebration of this love. "God so loved ... " And wonder of wonders, God gives this costly love to an undeserving world of sinners, like us.

John Piper

#14. In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

Eileen Chang