M.white Quotes

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

I have the backbone of an eel.

If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.

Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.

Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.

Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.

The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

We should strive to understand the weakness of others.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.

Oh my God, that is the best coffee I've ever tasted.

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.... Drink some, a little time before or after a meal.

I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.

Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

I asked my date what she wanted to drink. She said, 'Oh, I guess I'll have Champagne.' I said, 'Guess again.'

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.