Mezzo Forte Quotes

#1. If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Ridley Scott

#2. The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Michael Medved

#3. I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

David James Elliott

#4. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C.S. Lewis

#5. Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Russell M. Nelson

#6. Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.

Quentin Bryce

#7. Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

Agnes Denes

#8. Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though the knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever?

Jodi Picoult

#9. Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Kevin Bales

#10. I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Barbara Boxer

#11. Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#12. With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.

John Boyne

#13. The best things in life are the things that we cannot buy with money.

Debasish Mridha

#14. It's hard to have a career.

David Spade

#15. Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved.

Pope Francis