Dantalian Quotes & Sayings

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live. — Tom Hanks

Just like a boxer can't win without a few punches on his face, a student can't be fully trained without ups and downs. — Pawan Mishra

Our life alternates between billets and the front. We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely — Erich Maria Remarque

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays. — Kate Christensen

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there? — Steven Wright

Sin is the blurring of truth which clouds the purity of our consciousness. In sin we lust after pleasures, not because they are truly desirable, but because the red light of our passions makes them appear desirable; we long for things not because they are great in themselves, but because our greed exaggerates them and makes them appear great. — Rabindranath Tagore

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in. — Geraldine Brooks

When I'm not working, I'm walking. — Joseph Altuzarra

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give. — William, Saroyan

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thank God for little brothers, especially those who can talk around a mouthful of cheeseburger. — J. Sterling