#w

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#because #i #i write #my own #own

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business. ↗

— John Morton

#care #got #grateful #i #i can

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#keeps #knows #love #obedience #rules

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#assume #commands #conclusion #defend #dictates

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#beaten #because #been #blows #encourage

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#being #being content #content #get #getting

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. ↗

— Herman Melville

#depends #handsome #hideous #i #i am

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you. ↗

— David Mellor

#any #behavioural #complaining #eat #like

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#actor #best #bike #city #close