Daphnaida Quotes & Sayings

A totalitarian system leaves behind it a minefield built into both the country's social structure and the individual psychology of its citizens. And mines explode each time the system faces the danger of being dismantled and the country sees the prospect of genuine renewal. — Anatoly Sobchak

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion. — Brenda Lee

I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see. — Edmund Spenser

Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat chocolate morning, noon and night and grow fat as hedgehogs. — Alyxandra Harvey

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men. — William Morris

Kids are more nimble than wise ... — Nancy Gibbs

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. — Terry Pratchett

Style is the outcome of constraint. — Andre Maurois

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written? — Mary Ritter Beard

And you?" she asked. "What happens to you in that scenario?" I die a little each day we're apart. "I ... get by. And I miss you, every day." Every hour, every minute ... every second. — S.C. Stephens

Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears. — William Bernbach

A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I nkow what I know. — Gregory Maguire

I didn't think; I experimented. — Anthony Burgess

God has made you just the way you are to impact others right where he's placed you. — Tim Hiller

Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free. — Leonard Peltier