Decalogues Quotes & Sayings

The waves washed you away with their glory and the sun beckoned to you with its light. Your ears heard me calling but you knew it was time for you to say goodbye — K. Weikel

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together — Paul Smith

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. — Stephen King

People around me died, usually in horrible and bloody ways. — Ilona Andrews

How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read. — F Scott Fitzgerald

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less. — Noam Chomsky

The rules of life are not to be found in Korans, Bibles, Decalogues and Constitutions, but rather the rules of decadence and death. The "law of laws" is not written in Hebrew consonants or upon tables of brass and stone, but in every man's own heart. He who obeys any standard of right and wrong, but the one set up by his own conscience, betrays himself into the hands of his enemies, who are ever laying in wait to bind him to their millstones. And generally a man's most dangerous enemies are his neighbors. — Ragnar Redbeard

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results. — Mark Nepo