Merrymakings Quotes

#1. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merrymakings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.

Herman Melville

#2. The mutual warmth that is unknown, a single glass panel ... declares the beginning of everything

CLAMP

#3. If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

Brit Marling

#4. I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.

Bruce Parry

#5. I like fixing things," he said as he worked. "The world is always breaking, here and there, this way and that. Fix a bit of it, and I feel like I'm helping.

Bruce Coville

#6. Her soft spanish accent and her infinite arsenal of sighs.

Kiersten White

#7. But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

Lisa Lutz

#8. Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#9. Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

Philip Yancey

#10. I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

Jonathan Haidt

#11. Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

Anthony Trollope

#12. The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Abraham Verghese

#13. As long as life continues, the creative challenge is to tussle, play, and make love with the present moment while giving your unique gift.

David Deida

#14. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we're left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.

Sandra Oh

#15. In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

Michael Steinhardt