Dayjob Band Quotes & Sayings

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole. — Theodore Roosevelt

Let him cut your skin, and you cut his flesh. Let him cut your flesh, and you cut his bones. Let him cut your bones, and you cut off his life — Toshitsugu Takamatsu

I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it. — Michael Gove

A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before he can frolic. — George MacDonald

Why not smile and preserve, why not let the light summon, why not spread the love, the love we all deserve — Ipsit Bibhudarshi

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention. — Joseph Brodsky

We were at a swap meet in Cochituate last year, and there was this Boy Scout troop with a sign that read, 'Help Boy Scouts, Blind Kids.' Toby saw it, and he grabbed my shirt collar and pulled me away. I asked what was wrong, and with this scared expression on his face, he said, That's not right. They need to be stopped.'
I cracked up. 'Oh, no,' I said.
'When I asked him why helping blind kids and Boy Scouts was bad, Toby's whole face went white. He said, 'Forget it. Let's go.' But I had to know what the hell he was talking about, so I made him walk back over with me. We looked at the sign together, and finally he mumbled, 'I didn't see the comma. — Bill Konigsberg

I love you, McKay. I love you so much it would kill me not to try. — Amy Lane

The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back. — Donald Miller

I went to a restaurant the other day called 'Taste of the Raj.' The waiter hit me with a stick and got me to build a complicated railway system. — Harry Hill

You cannot brighten another's path without lighting your own. — Frank McKinney

I struggle with racism every day — John Grisham

People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful. — Kristen Stewart