Merthyr Town Quotes

#1. Proud folk separate themselves from others, judging them ... To criticize others we must hold them from us, at arm's length so to speak. And then before you know where you are you've pushed them away and you're the poorer.

Elizabeth Goudge

#2. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

William T. Sherman

#3. I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

Jorge Ramos

#4. I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.

Cory Monteith

#5. When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

Leslie Lamport

#6. Evans: We don't know what extraterrestrial civilization is like, but we know humanity.

Liu Cixin

#7. Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

John C. Maxwell

#8. Damn it, Emily. I'm responsible for your safety." "Then wear a condom!" "Jesus," he said, breathing out hard. "I was right before. You definitely have multiple personalities." My eyes narrowed. "Yeah, well maybe I do, and none of them like you!

Alison Bliss

#9. My sister actually has a "thinking face." It makes people wait before speaking to her. Dad says my thinking face makes it look like I want to go to the loo.

Jojo Moyes

#10. [Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job ... into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.

Milan Kundera

#11. Great lives are very rarely created in great comfort.

Jon Acuff

#12. I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#13. I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

Ossie Davis

#14. The bloggers and online donors represent an important resource for the party, but they are not representative of the majority you need to win elections,

Steve Elmendorf

#15. My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

Jodi Picoult