Fae Myenne Ng quotes

Fae Myenne Ng quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Remembering the past gives power to the present.”
-- Fae Myenne Ng

#Caring Quotes #Past Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want”
“Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”

Source : 'Listener' 6 June 1963
“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”
“Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.”
“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”
“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”
“If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs”
“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan

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