Mermelstein Fried Quotes

#1. Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it

Libba Bray

#2. A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

Aldous Huxley

#3. people you work with don't want to hear how hard your life is or how hard you work. They care how well you do your job.

Liz Weber

#4. Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

Robin Williams

#5. We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.

Henry Beston

#6. Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

James Madison

#7. He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

Chris Matthews

#8. and how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother? To

George Eliot

#9. If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

C.S. Lewis