Meritta Koivisto Quotes

#1. She was beautiful in the way people call the desert beautiful, which is to say that although some people actually believed it, most of the time it was said in response to someone else's denigration of it.

Chris McCormick

#2. You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

Erma Bombeck

#3. The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

H.L. Mencken

#4. The best-remembered teachers are the tough ones, who discipline our intellects for the longest journeys.

Annis Pratt

#5. This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6. You, me
we're not the same, but we
our lives
somehow fit together.

Stephanie Laurens

#7. And if Glass believed in a god, surely it resided in this great western expanse. Not a physical presence, but an idea, something beyond man's ability to comprehend, something larger.

Michael Punke

#8. The first decade of the twenty-first century was a crazy bookend to the twentieth, opening with a second Pearl Harbor and ending with a second Great Crash, with a second Vietnam wedged in between. Now we seem caught in the coils of a second Great Depression.

David Frum

#9. We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

Dirk Benedict

#10. As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Samuel Johnson

#11. The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the cheek, Jesus did question the legitimacy of the authority by which this was done.

John Thackway

#12. I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

#13. I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.

Jennifer Donnelly

#14. Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

Elie Wiesel

#15. To those of us accustomed to newspaper headlines, 'PIZZAS' in inverted commas suggests these might be pizzas, but nobody's promising anything, and if they turn out to be cardboard with a bit of cheese on top, you can't say you weren't warned.

Lynne Truss