George W. Merck Quotes

We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.

George W. Merck

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• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Crime
  • Eternal

• I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Research
  • Scene
  • Through

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Body
  • Confusion

• For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • Become

• I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Kind
  • Reflection
  • Boat

• There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Earth
  • Silence

• No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Alone
  • Here

• And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Weird

• When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.

  

  Dawn Steel

• I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Death

• It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Why
  • Question

• A man can preach no better than he prays.

  

  Charles Stanley

• Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

  

  Joe Chung
  • Democracy

• I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Up
  • Long

• Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

  

  Susan Sontag
  • Action
  • Compassion
  • Emotion

• They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Gay

• Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Opinion
  • Courage
  • Creation

• I grew up in Minnesota.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Grew Up

• We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.

  

  George W. Merck
  • Achievement
  • Creation
  • Diseases