Dacks Collection Quotes & Sayings

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again. — Jimmy Doolittle

To live is not enough; we must take part. — Pablo Casals

He was trying to pay close attention to his surroundings as a way to avert thought and anxiety. — David Foster Wallace

Psa 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. — Jeff Swanson

This was the problem with making important decisions by committee and trying to run a war of ideals with men and women whose vision was so limited by money. — Jack Coughlin

I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves ... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence. — Vanessa Carlton

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. — William Jennings Bryan

Aw, dad... this isn't another one of those "oh, you're LUCKY you didn't have to peck dry corn and uncooked rice off the dirt!" kind of thing is it? — Gerry Alanguilan

Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down from the boulder, still screaming, his voice beginning to to crack and give, and all around him his men were roaring animal screams, and he saw the whole Regiment rising and pouring over the wall and beginning to bound down through the dark bushes, over the dead and dying wounded, hats coming off, hair flying, mouths making sounds, one man firing as he ran, the last bullet, last round. — Michael Shaara

I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system. — Ozzie Guillen

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet. — Tom Lehrer

["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings arises from artlessly trusting somebody to excess, and believing that human being to be in every way true and sound and trustworthy, and then a little later discovering that this person is wicked and untrustworthy - and then having this experience again with another. And whenever somebody experiences this many times, and especially at the hands of just those he might regard as his most intimate friends and comrades, he then ends up taking offense all the time and hates all human beings and believes there's nothing at all sound in anybody. — Plato

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise,
Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!
From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,
And Swift expires a driveller and a show. — Samuel Johnson