Merritte La Quotes

#1. Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

Margaret Thatcher

#2. Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

Scott Adams

#3. I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Jed S. Rakoff

#4. My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.

Mike Birbiglia

#5. When things are in the hands of the state, they are in a hell of a state.

Leon Louw

#6. I don't trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?

Reginald Shepherd

#7. I don't think there's anybody better than Leonardo DiCaprio, and I've been saying that since before anyone knew who he was.

Michael Keaton

#8. There were angry clouds building up behind the moutains, black-gray clouds, great clumps of them colored just like cotton balls after Aunt Ruth cleaned off her eye makeup from a big night out, all gunky with mascara and eye shadow. (p 378)

Emily M. Danforth

#9. Neither one nor the other, not a demon, but not a human either, no place no belong... I thought the only way was to carve out your own place, by force; that's how I survived. And by the time I knew what was happening, I was all alone...

Inuyasha

#10. Wynand's face was more than the face of a stranger: a stranger's face is an unapproached potentiality, to be opened if one makes the choice and effort; this was a face known, closed and never to be reached again.

Ayn Rand

#11. You're not pretty. Goddamn it, Dani. You're beautiful.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. Positive thinking is the power of the mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Seneca.