Menharts Quotes

#1. Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis ... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so.

Orlando Figes

#2. Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

John Ruskin

#3. I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

Toby Jones

#5. When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.

Maura Tierney

#6. It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.

Patrick O'Brian

#7. The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

John Hancock

#8. The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.

Grover Furr

#9. Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

Kobe Bryant

#11. This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time.

Annie Dillard

#12. without the likes of him we would not have made it to the Moon.

Gene Kranz

#13. When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

Donald T. Phillips

#14. A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.

Leonard Jacobson