Dajerria Quotes & Sayings

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists. — Gore Vidal

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great. — Dalai Lama

It is not much better to fall honourably in defence of liberty, than be again exposed to the outrages of Romans? Such, at least, is my resolution; as for you men, you may, if you please, live and be slaves! — QueenBoadicea

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid. — Kate Clinton

Every person and everything can change the destiny of every other person and every other thing, in a good or in a bad way! We are all destiny makers; everything is a destiny maker! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement. — Malcolm Gladwell

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work. — Orhan Pamuk

The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day — Baal Shem Tov

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it. — Alan Watts

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable. — Pete Seeger

I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I don't think I would enjoy that as much anymore. You really become fixated on ways out. — Daniel Woodrell

Greenland ice cores show the temperatures there changing by as much as 8 degrees Celsius in ten years, drastically altering rainfall patterns and growing conditions. — Bill Bryson

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded. — Thomas Paine

He had passed his life in the pursuit of happiness, and had never learnt that happiness is best attained when it is not sought; and, moreover, is only known when it is lost. It is doubtful whether anyone can say "I am happy"; but only "I was happy". For happiness is not well-being, content, heart's ease, pleasure, enjoyment: all these go to make happiness, but they are not happiness. — W. Somerset Maugham