Melee Quotes

#1. I confess my belief in the common man ... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it ... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

Woodrow Wilson

#2. The ref blew the whistle and the pack took off. The "jostling" from earlier had turned into a "melee" Sun Tzu would have been afraid of.

Shelly Laurenston

#3. This occasional sports columnist, who has been to his share of Super Bowls, had been glad to be home on Super Bowl Sunday, but the scary commercials made me want to be in the melee of the arena, where you are not aware of commercials.

George Vecsey

#4. Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

Jim Carrey

#5. Holy Christ! There was a frickin' melee in the alley. Lessers. Brothers. Two civilians crouched and quivering in the middle. And big bad Butch O'Neal.

J.R. Ward

#6. A roar cut through the melee: a booming growl, a noise that might come out of a she-bear protecting a cub. It was Alec- and suddenly bodies were flying everywhere.

James Dashner

#7. The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Jethro Tull

#8. History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

Allan Nevins

#9. I love being onstage.

Stephen Colbert

#10. Write what pleases you.
If you please others in the process it's a bonus.

Roy A. Higgins

#11. The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.

Jon Foreman

#12. I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

Woody Allen

#14. I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am.

Craig Stone

#15. Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Tryon Edwards

#16. The sky is deep black, the stars pressing down brilliantly all around, and I am reminded that we are not beneath the constellations, but among them.
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Michael Perry

#17. A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.

Richard Wurmbrand

#18. Joy and sadness come by turns.

Walker Percy

#19. What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

Jim Trelease

#20. There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

Binyavanga Wainaina