Dannenberg Baltimore Quotes & Sayings

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson

If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened. — Jaggi Vasudev

Corporal Carrot, Ankh-Morpork City Guard (Night Watch), sat down in his nightshirt, took up his pencil, sucked the end for a moment, and then wrote: — Anonymous

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated. — Russell Crowe

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence ... they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press. ... a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have — Amartya Sen

You can insult me, but it only makes you look weak." "Why weak?" he asks, losing his smile. "By devaluing me so you'll look better in comparison, you actually make yourself look like a punk." "Thanks, — Bijou Hunter

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity. — John F. Kerry

Queen can't work like any normal group. They utilise each others' talents to the fullest. A lot of the band's ideas are revolutionary, a lot of the style is revolutionary. — Roy Thomas Baker

Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorgan
but in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you do and they last longer — Venkat Gandhi

Cub had puffed up like a rooster when the article came out, taking it in to show the guys at the gravel company. He was impressed with all the celebrity in equal measure, the type of kid who had cut out pictures of football players, Jesus, and America's Most Wanted to tape on his bedroom wall. He'd confessed to having cried in sixth grade when he learned that superheroes weren't real. Dellarobia was his Wonder Woman. But Hester seemed incensed by the article, which referred to Dellarobia as Our Lady of the Butterflies. Among other complaints, Hester said it made them sound Catholic. — Barbara Kingsolver

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. — Kevin J. Anderson

There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice. — J.M.E. McTaggart

(Why do you rob banks, Willie?) Because that's where the money is. — Willie Sutton

if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. — Hugh Howey

This capacity for objectivity and absoluteness amounts to an existential - and "preventive" - refutation of the ideologies of doubt: if a man is able to doubt, it is because there is certainty; likewise the very notion of illusion proves that man has access to reality. It follows that there are necessarily some men who know reality and who therefore have certainty; and the great spokesmen of this knowledge and certainty are necessarily the best of men. For if truth were on the side of doubt, the individual who doubted would be superior not only to these spokesmen, who have not doubted, but also to the majority of normal men across the millennia of human existence. If doubt conformed to the real, human intelligence would be deprived of its sufficient reason, and man would be less than an animal, for the intelligence of animals does not doubt the reality to which it is proportioned. — Frithjof Schuon