Merlene Lear Quotes

#1. Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action

Pope John Paul II

#2. Always ask, 'Do you love me?' before saying, 'I love you.

Vinita Kinra

#3. Old age is an insult. Old age is a slap in the face. It sabotages a fine mind ( ... ).

Penelope Lively

#4. We'll never again be the boys we once were, Tomas. But we've become so much more than we dreamed.

Raymond E. Feist

#5. There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.

Todd Neva

#6. Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

John Dingell

#7. Why does anyone do the things they do?

Clyde Bruckman

#8. Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.

Sirio Maccioni

#9. Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

Tom Lantos

#10. I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.

Daniel Suarez

#11. Genius is patience.

Isaac Newton

#12. I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Susan B. Anthony