Dan Berrigan Quotes & Sayings

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk — Seneca.

Doors close. That's life, but they don't necessarily have to hit my nose, and leave me hanging and shocked every time they do. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall. — James Van Der Beek

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. — Winston S. Churchill

After raising twins, you get organized. — Scott Ellis

Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium. — Greta Gerwig

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice. — Mahathir Mohamad

Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground. — Georg Brandes

Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours ... — Eliza Leslie

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this. — Elbert Hubbard