Mervin Mayo Quotes

#1. Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

Patrick Swift

#2. It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

Vartan Gregorian

#3. What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Henry Ford

#4. At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#5. With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

Paul Burrell

#6. The more I dealt with adults, the less I wanted to be one.

Alan Bradley

#7. Rhythms are relations between what you believe and what you believed before.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.

Ian Kershaw

#9. The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.

Robert Lanza

#10. The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Walid Jumblatt

#11. Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#12. All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

Harry Mulisch

#13. You can like an immoral character because she's interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.

Gillian Flynn

#14. To a large degree, a particular collision of genes and temperament with a suboptimal or hostile environment may explain the development of borderline personality disorder.

Dolores Mosquera