Multiyear Merriam Quotes

#1. Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Bill Gates

#3. Maybe that's as good as it gets." "Shit. I wish it had been better." "Maybe it will be. We just live our lives, good ones. Pay that way." He leaned into me and sobbed. "Nic, I love you. You saved my fucking soul.

Harper Fox

#4. I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

Marianne Wiggins

#5. Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

Lucy Larcom

#6. In the beginning, there was physics.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. Benzedrine,' he said. 'I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters.

Ian Fleming

#8. And when one loves kills another, can you still love the one who's left?

Alessandra Torre

#9. I believe the universe created us we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

Ray Bradbury

#10. This is why whoever is not afraid of the devil can tear out his hair and win the entire world.

Jacob Grimm

#11. They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

Lauren Bacall

#12. Don't just be a church goer, find God

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Always buy pornographic books in hardback because they're easier to hold with one hand.

Robert Clark

#14. I gave him my life, but you cannot ask me to stop living.

Victoria Schwab

#15. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

Anthony Burgess