Treacly Merriam Quotes

#1. Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Tell me what's wrong with society
When everywhere I look I see
Rich guys driving big SUV's
While kids are starving in the streets
No one cares
No one likes to share
I guess life's unfair

Simple Plan

#3. Ah! Your heavenly smile makes my heart dance with the ecstasy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#4. The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism.

George Orwell

#5. What would you do if you couldn't do what you want?'-Something else.

Marty Rubin

#6. Such a beautiful smile! It is like spring flowers in the deadness of a white winter.

Debasish Mridha

#7. By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Sydney Pollack

#8. If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

John Hickenlooper

#9. I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.

Charles Krauthammer

#10. The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.

Jay Parini

#11. Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.

Linda Wertheimer

#12. Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

Nevil Shute

#13. In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

Robert Reich