Meretorious Quotes

#1. To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

John Ruskin

#2. My mind is heaven
My eyes are the sun and the moon
My awareness shines like the morning star.

Ilchi Lee

#3. Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

Brad Thor

#4. Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

Tom Hanks

#5. I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.

Marc Quinn

#6. Thank you so much ... um, what's your name?'

'Nashira Jaynes.'

'I'm Jared Dernell,' he said, extending his hand.

Deepika Kumaaraguru

#7. Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

Janet Fitch

#8. Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

Bobby Hull

#9. We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way

David Bresler

#10. Addictive personalities can latch on to anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, people ... what if you become addicted to me?"
"I am already addicted to you, Beatrice. Only you're far more dangerous than cocaine.

Sylvain Reynard

#11. The weight of God's glory, not illusory or ephemeral, but daily and everywhere, punctures earth's lid and heaven falls through the holes.

Ann Voskamp

#12. While progressing in this way, with a dirty street ahead of him and a clean one behind, he often had grand ideas. They were ideas that couldn't easily be put into words, though - ideas as hard to define as a half-remembered scent or a colour seen in a dream.

Michael Ende

#13. There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street.

Martin Amis

#14. Maybe love was different for everyone, sometimes soft and gentle, other times a slap in the face - a doe-eyed vixen that called you out on your shit and set every inch of you on fire.

Keira Blackwood

#15. To obey," even in the slightest and smallest thing, "is better than sacrifice,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. I am deeply grateful for all the friendships that I have all across this district, especially here in Ithaca. Ithacas a wonderful place. Im very proud to be the person who represents the city and some of Tompkins County.

Maurice Hinchey