Dagliang Quotes & Sayings

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies. — Louis J. Freeh

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination. — David Berlinski

If I should still be kept in this hole over Christmas, don't worry about it. I'm not really anxious about it. One can keep Christmas as a Christian even in prison - more easily than family occasions, anyhow. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology — Henry Chesbrough

What?' Noah looked at me, all innocence.
'You're not shy.'
'No?'
'No,' I said, narrowing my eyes. 'And pretending to be makes you look like a jackass.'
Noah feigned offense. 'You've wounded me to the core with your profane characterization.'
'Pass the tissues. — Michelle Hodkin

To achieve greatness, feel grateful for what you have. — Debasish Mridha

There is nothing sexual about my interest in other women's breasts. But it's difficult not be curious when you have next to none of your own. — Victoria Clayton

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences. — Muhammad Yunus

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it. — Michael Rapaport

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco. — Edward Abbey

Everything that is decreed for the Muslim is best for him. — Aaidh Ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni

I feel like I came out of the womb and was punted - there you go, out in the world! — Drew Barrymore

Deep in the recesses of her mind, she knew they were probably watching. They watched everything, after all.

Let them watch. Let them see what it meant to be human. To live.

Let them see what it meant to love, and be loved in return. — G.S. Jennsen

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood. — Barry S. Strauss