Menkens Dept Quotes

#1. He who expects not to achieve will never do so.

Caron Butler

#2. Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

Anton Zeilinger

#3. Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

Richard Baxter

#4. The memory of man is as old as misfortune

Lawrence Durrell

#5. I believe a family just isn't complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy's nose right around the time they divorced.

Cole Alpaugh

#6. Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society.

Jean Baudrillard

#7. Life demands for change.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here

Steven Spielberg

#9. I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.

Harriet Tubman

#10. When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd: it is so easy for it to go over to the majority.

Seneca.

#11. Let's make just a few more steps and secure success forever.

Stephen Richards

#12. I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

Ian McKellen

#13. If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

Sun Ra

#15. People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

Elton John