Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
OWEN MEREDITH We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
OWEN MEREDITH There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
OWEN MEREDITH Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them
OWEN MEREDITH Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
OWEN MEREDITH There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it.
OWEN MEREDITH The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy...
OWEN MEREDITH The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he w...
OWEN MEREDITH Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man
OWEN MEREDITH Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fe...
OWEN MEREDITH Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God
OWEN MEREDITH Thought alone is eternal
OWEN MEREDITH There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it.
OWEN MEREDITH Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.
OWEN MEREDITH Without consistency there is no moral strength.
OWEN I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.
MEREDITH MONK I've never had an empty house. Ever.
MEREDITH MONK Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and...
MEREDITH MONK Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and...
MEREDITH MONK When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
MEREDITH MONK I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I did...
MEREDITH MONK As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're ...
MEREDITH MONK I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actua...
MEREDITH MONK People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleas...
MEREDITH WHITNEY The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real ...
MEREDITH WHITNEY Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressive...
MEREDITH WHITNEY There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.
MEREDITH WHITNEY Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been...
MEREDITH WHITNEY At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
MEREDITH WHITNEY There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really carefu...
MEREDITH WHITNEY You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports...
MEREDITH WHITNEY You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the busi...
MEREDITH WHITNEY We who have seen Italia in the throes,Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and now,Like a ripe fie...
GEORGE MEREDITH The cameraman isn't thinking about whether you're good that day. He's too busy worrying ...
MEREDITH SALENGER More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s w...
MEREDITH BAXTER Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon onesel...
GEORGE MEREDITH "Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent.
GEORGE MEREDITH Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that s...
MEREDITH EATON The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
GEORGE MEREDITH De fiecare dată când respiri sau când păşeşti, o
faci pentru a împinge înainte vieţile...
MEREDITH WILD De fiecare dată când respiri sau când păşeşti, o faci pentru a împinge înainte vieţile amâ...
MEREDITH WILD Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
GEORGE MEREDITH Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
GEORGE MEREDITH That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
GEORGE MEREDITH Speech is the small change of silence.
GEORGE MEREDITH The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
GEORGE MEREDITH Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
GEORGE MEREDITH Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
GEORGE MEREDITH Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
GEORGE MEREDITH She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
GEORGE MEREDITH Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills alon...
GEORGE MEREDITH Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
GEORGE MEREDITH A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! ...
GEORGE MEREDITH If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.
MEREDITH WEST Kissing don't last: cookery do!
GEORGE MEREDITH Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all yo...
MEREDITH GREY Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...
GEORGE MEREDITH Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet esca...
GEORGE MEREDITH I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal governm...
JAMES MEREDITH When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.
MEREDITH OSTROM I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
GEORGE MEREDITH The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
GEORGE MEREDITH Bring the army of the faithful through.
GEORGE MEREDITH The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom tha...
GEORGE MEREDITH There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
GEORGE MEREDITH Kissing don't last: cookery do!
GEORGE MEREDITH The well of true wit is truth itself.
GEORGE MEREDITH A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what w...
GEORGE MEREDITH I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
GEORGE MEREDITH Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
GEORGE MEREDITH A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
GEORGE MEREDITH Don't just count your years, make your years count.
GEORGE MEREDITH Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
JAMES MEREDITH When I die, I want to come back as Bobby Layne's chauffeur.
DON MEREDITH I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness
MEREDITH DURAN That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going d...
MEREDITH MONK It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to...
MEREDITH MONK When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to...
MEREDITH MONK In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It...
MEREDITH MONK Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
GEORGE MEREDITH You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but...
MEREDITH WHITNEY My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt...
JAMES MEREDITH I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
BURGESS MEREDITH Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never co...
GEORGE MEREDITH Caricature is rough truth.
GEORGE MEREDITH You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don'...
MEREDITH WILLSON The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
MEREDITH WILLSON Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
MEREDITH WILLSON But O the truth, the truth. The
many eyes
That look on it! The diverse things
they see.
GEORGE MEREDITH Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just ...
MEREDITH GREY My family fulfills me.
MEREDITH VIEIRA I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't mis...
DON MEREDITH The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're...
MEREDITH BROOKS Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid ...
MEREDITH WOOD I did enjoy it, it was good. I've eaten here before.
MICHELLE MEREDITH Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-cl...
JAMES MEREDITH I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist d...
MEREDITH EATON The capaciously strong in soul among women will ultimately detect an infinite grossness in the deman...
GEORGE MEREDITH He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often ...
MEREDITH DURAN just got back from a beautiful eve of winter solstice snowshoeing. my heart was lost and enlivened b...
GEORGE MEREDITH They better close it down. It's unsafe. It's unfit. My God, 12 men lost their lives.
ANN MEREDITH I call this injustice. I will tell you right here now, I am going to sue.
ANN MEREDITH Each time he documented, you could tell it was getting worse.
ANN MEREDITH This is one of the reasons I wrote the book -- to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
MEREDITH MARAN I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly.
MEREDITH DURAN At that moment, I hated dating more than doing my laundry
MEREDITH SCHORR We think it will help stimulate revenue through the reduction of churn and extend the life-cycle of ...
DAVID MEREDITH You gotta understand -- the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the Unite...
JAMES MEREDITH Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.
MEREDITH BROOKS Sweet as Eden is the air, / And Eden-sweet the ray.
GEORGE MEREDITH And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.
GEORGE MEREDITH The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom tha...
GEORGE MEREDITH Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her f...
GEORGE MEREDITH 'Tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.
GEORGE MEREDITH It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him
GEORGE MEREDITH On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. / Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.
GEORGE MEREDITH Not till the fire is dying in the grate, / Look we for any kinship with the stars.
GEORGE MEREDITH Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, / Couched with her arms behind her golden head, / ...
GEORGE MEREDITH The point of 'The View' is to give your view on various issues. There's nobody who has no biases on ...
MEREDITH VIEIRA I noticed in the hallway a black janitor and I wondered why he was standing there. And he had a mop ...
JAMES MEREDITH This is stunning, an absolute betrayal. I'm reliving everything bad about Kenneth's death. It's hear...
KAREN MEREDITH I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Withou...
MEREDITH GREY Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being gratef...
MEREDITH GREY Okay, here it is, your choice... it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she is really great. But Derek...
MEREDITH GREY Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn ...
MEREDITH GREY At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you i...
MEREDITH GREY Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heal...
MEREDITH GREY A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Ne...
MEREDITH GREY At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like...
MEREDITH GREY Most of us think we know ourselves pretty well. Our hopes, dreams, desires.. We cling tightly to thi...
MEREDITH GREY Once again this year, Sam has been one of the most consistent and dependable scores in the district....
DOUG MEREDITH Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions w...
MEREDITH DURAN It's great exercise, it's relaxing. If you want to get competitive, there are opportunities for that...
MEREDITH SAMPSON She called me on the cell phone to tell me what she's found.
MEREDITH SAMPSON Speaker - please see note from Alan Middleton below. This sounds like a great idea. What do you thin...
MEREDITH NORRIS It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong,
DON MEREDITH There is an internal genocide going on,
DON MEREDITH Believing in yourself, is an endless destination. Believing you have failed, is the end of your jour...
SARAH MEREDITH Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose
GEORGE MEREDITH Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet esca...
GEORGE MEREDITH Cynicism is intellectual dandyism
GEORGE MEREDITH I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man
GEORGE MEREDITH Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to...
GEORGE MEREDITH Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, / The army of unalterable law.
GEORGE MEREDITH She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, / Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
GEORGE MEREDITH Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life
GEORGE MEREDITH The well of true wit is truth itself
GEORGE MEREDITH Don't just count your years, make your years count.
GEORGE MEREDITH A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power
GEORGE MEREDITH I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the li...
MEREDITH GREY Enter these enchanted woods, / You who dare.
GEORGE MEREDITH I can't breath without you, baby. You undo me and then put me back together whole again. You take i...
MEREDITH WILD It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tough tim...
MEREDITH WILD Blake Landon was my drug, my obsession-a habit I had no intentions of ever quitting.
MEREDITH WILD Marriage, to me, implied stability, something sure and reliable. Happily ever after and all good thi...
MEREDITH WILD Don't worry baby, I'm not leaving. Now when you're spread out for me like a fucking banquet.
MEREDITH WILD • “As soon as I'd walked out of my normal working life and into the apartment we now shared, I w...
MEREDITH WILD His green eyes were dark and dilated, and they locked with mine. I saw him then - the man, but also ...
MEREDITH WILD You make me happy, so yes. The less of you I have to share, the better.
MEREDITH WILD Listen to your heart, Erica. There’s nothing but noise in this world, and that’s got to be the o...
MEREDITH WILD It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don’t just take to move your ...
MEREDITH WILD For better or worse, we’d ended those nights together. Not last night, and when he left me alone, ...
MEREDITH WILD I wanted to be everything for him, even in these dark moments when nothing made sense but the demand...
MEREDITH WILD Are you a risk? Usually when you leave me, you just take my heart. That’s the biggest risk of all,...
MEREDITH WILD Either way, I couldn’t let him leave me, and if I had to kneel to make him stay, I would.
MEREDITH WILD Make no mistake, what’s yours is mine. I don’t need a legal document to make me feel any safer i...
MEREDITH WILD As soon as I'd walked out of my normal working life and into the apartment we now shared, I went to ...
MEREDITH WILD With all his kinks and maddening control issues, I loved this man. As much as he needed this, I need...
MEREDITH WILD the only place I could feel the pain was in my heart, the place where I’d wounded us both.
MEREDITH WILD I own you, Erica. Your heart, the blood that beats through it when I hold you down this way. Your b...
MEREDITH WILD Blake could own me, he could hold something deep in me, but I knew I'd captured something precious i...
MEREDITH WILD I want control, Erica. But I'm not going to take it from you. You have to give it to me. you opened...
MEREDITH WILD All I've ever wanted, since the day we met, was your trust. I want to be there for you, to help you...
MEREDITH WILD Love. It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tou...
MEREDITH WILD Promises of his love, that he’d always protect me and keep me safe, filled the air around us until...
MEREDITH WILD You're the only one who can bring me through this, because I've never trusted someone the way I trus...
MEREDITH WILD This doesn't work. Being apart destroys us. I can't live without you Blake. I can barely survive a n...
MEREDITH WILD I can't breathe without you, baby. You undo me and then put me back together whole again. You take i...
MEREDITH WILD Yes. Hopelessly in love with you. Get used to it. Marriage is forever.
MEREDITH WILD Love. It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tou...
MEREDITH WILD It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don't just take to move your ow...
MEREDITH WILD Harold Hill: You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of em...
MEREDITH WILLSON My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with ...
MEREDITH EATON You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your l...
MEREDITH GREY I want my girls to know who they are and have strong family connections. I want them to be educated....
LIZBETH MEREDITH Stuart has been a big contributor all year. Without him, we might be looking up at Tabb.
DOUG MEREDITH Sam had a great round today. I think he's beginning to realize just how good he can be.
DOUG MEREDITH It was nice to see Scott bounce back. The 71 he shot today is more like [him].
DOUG MEREDITH Garrison continues to be rock solid. He never seems to have a bad day. And even if he was, he'd neve...
DOUG MEREDITH It worked out all right. It really did. I give (Cosell) a lot of credit for setting a certain tone. ...
DON MEREDITH and I really am.
DON MEREDITH If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?
DON MEREDITH Welcome to the Mile High City, ... and I really am.
DON MEREDITH Turn out the lights, the party's over.
DON MEREDITH You can't let fear grip you. You have to step over that threshold. Good, law-abiding citizens can no...
DON MEREDITH The mother explained it to a teacher at the school who didn't know these were gang colours, ... The ...
DON MEREDITH We can't allow this to continue anymore. Forty-five murders, 31 of them have been young black men. W...
DON MEREDITH I like the underdog role. We are glad to be going, and we met our goal for the year of making it thi...
MATT MEREDITH