Dalda Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

I intend to focus on the question of truth. That means I do not inquire about facticity-what happened-but what is
claimed, what is asserted here about reality. — Walter Brueggemann

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future." — Joan Miro

Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well. — Sheldon B. Kopp

Sometimes I forget what I look like and I do something out of character, such as sing shepherd tunes in Aramaic while I'm waiting in line at Starbucks, but the nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them. — Kevin Hearne

It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy ... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet ... — Bill Hicks

There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse. — Norman Mailer

No you don't," he tells me. He walks into the building lobby with me under his arm like a rolled-up newspaper. He even checks his mailbox. — Sally Thorne

Sexist language promotes and maintains attitudes that stereotype people according to gender while assuming that the male is the norm - the significant gender. Nonsexist language treats both sexes equally and either does not refer to a person's sex when it is irrelevant or refers to men and women and to girls and boys in symmetrical ways. — Rosalie Maggio

For a while this seemed to do the trick, and I felt that whatever contamination I had helped to spread, the boundaries I had helped to break, sprinkling flakes of myself all over the surface of New York like so much fish food, had been forgiven. — Olivia Sudjic

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed. — Steve Madden

small dachshund tore into his backyard carrying something in his mouth. The dog stopped about ten feet in front of him, and they stared each other down. Too well groomed to be a stray, it probably belonged to his nearest neighbor, a new renter who'd just moved in. — Shelly Alexander

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves. — Franz Kafka

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes. — Katherine Paterson

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head. — Dennis Prager