De Pagter Interiors Quotes & Sayings

What are you waiting for tomorrow to do? To get done? To achieve? To start? Where your good intentions are disconnecting from the actions you should do for the things you desire? — Tony Curl

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population ... — Jean-Paul Sartre

Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we? — Dave Eggers

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. — W.E.B. Du Bois

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now I protest to thee, gentle reader, that I entirely dissent from Francisco de Ubeda in this matter, and hold it the most useful quality of my pen, that it can speedily change from grave to gay, and from description and dialogue to narrative and character. So that if my quill displays no other properties of its mother-goose than her mutability, truly I shall be well pleased; and I conceive that you, my worthy friend, will have no occasion for discontent. From — Walter Scott

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. — Robert Solow

It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the last. They are positively oily. — Stella Gibbons

Success is more a part of who you are, than anything outside of you. — Jon Jones

The fact that extremely diversified phenomena are explained in terms of laws having the same form or pattern gives us information... about the structure of the various levels of reality with which the mind deals; for presumably the pattern of a hypothesis must have some correspondence, if it works, with the pattern of the phenomena which it explains. — Aldous Huxley

When things consistently fail to compute, it does point to a consistently undefined possibility. — Edwin F. Becker

There are other senses for other forms of all things. — Toba Beta

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope