Daretha Quotes & Sayings

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology. — Ted Chiang

Cut the habit of buying on impulse, especially with high ticket items. Think twice before making any major purchase. If possible, sleep on it overnight before deciding to make the purchase. — Erick Walk

One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. — Charles E. Allen

You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up, — Alex Bogusky

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms. — Mark Twain

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others. — Deepak Chopra

[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color! — Elsie De Wolfe

I wondered how those traits translated during sex. Was he secretly soft and gentle or rough and controlling? Hot damn. — Anonymous

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does. — Groucho Marx

Cultural relativism has used this deceit to gain power. The absolute relativists want to assert their sincere desire for dialogue UNTIL they become a majority. Then they often want to settle issues by either exclusion or coercion. They first argue for democratic fairness, but when they acquire their majority, they are tempted to turn immediately to a triumphalism that assumes that liberal justice has triumphed. From then on, dialogue about truth is forbidden, and about absolute truth is absolutely forbidden. — Thomas C. Oden

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising. — Ken Buck

Crime of war is a criminal activity of which the defeated enemies, but not the victors, are guilty. — Noam Chomsky

I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed. — Catherine Hardwicke

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered. — Charles M. Blow

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. — Anthony Robbins