Debruin Provisions Quotes & Sayings

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I ball my hand into a fist, swing back, and let my knuckles crack against his jaw. "Motherfucker," he moans, pushing me away as blood rushes from his mouth. He — Frankie Love

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement. — Nick Cave

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. — Norman Douglas

Every incident in the Old Testament was considered to pre-figure in allegory what was to come in the New. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. — Horace Greeley

Everybody knows the dice are loaded. — Leonard Cohen

In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss. — Thomas C. Oden

Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great? — Charles M. Schwab

Getting dressed starts with shoes. Getting undressed ends with shoes. — Chloe Thurlow

Our aim is a democratic peace. — George W. Bush

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures. — Nan Goldin

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography. — J.G. Ballard