Mentis Grating Quotes

#1. If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead.

Cory J. Herndon

#2. I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

William Wilberforce

#3. Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots.' [William the road-mender about Merlin]

John Steinbeck

#4. Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

Zig Ziglar

#5. In the end, this sort of ban can only be accomplished in one way, and that's if gun advocates get behind it.

Stephen King

#6. To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Alexander Haig

#7. Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Only "those few, who being attached to no particular occupation themselves," said Smith, "have leisure and inclination to examine the occupations of other people.

Gordon S. Wood

#9. Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

Julian Baggini

#10. I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don't want to do that. I just don't want to wash my hair every day.

Ellen DeGeneres

#11. I quickly learned that the illusion of appearance will always outweigh the truth of what's really inside.

Carian Cole

#12. I guess saying goodbye makes us reach out for those we would ordinarily ignore. Maybe we care about them more, too, when it is time to part.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#13. Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond.

John Green

#14. It wasn't even a bar. It was just a room where people drank while they waited for other people with whom they had business. The business usually involved the transfer of ownership of something from one person to another, but then, what business doesn't?

Terry Pratchett

#15. Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you

John Geddes