Dedit Quotes & Sayings

Something wonderful has happened to me. I was carried up into the seventh heaven. There all the gods sat assembled. By special grace I was granted the favor of a wish. "Will you," said Mercury, "have youth, or beauty, or power, or a long life, or the most beautiful maiden, or any of the other glories we have in the chest? Choose, but only one thing." For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed myself to the gods as follows: "Most honorable contemporaries, I choose this one thing, that I may always have the laugh on my side." Not one of the gods said a word, on the contrary, they all began to laugh. Hence, I concluded that my request was granted, and found that the gods knew how to express themselves with great taste; for it would hardly have been suitable for them to answer gravely: "It is granted thee. — Soren Kierkegaard

Exploration ... no longer seemed aimed at some outward discovery; rather, it was directed inward ... — David Grann

If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother. — Emma Michaels

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet. — Anna Held

Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust. — Sean Faris

When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia. — Johnny Depp

I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner. — Damian Woetzel

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life. — Alan Bennett

Media must not be allowed to carry only bad news — Sunday Adelaja

Even though it is always difficult to abandon a project, it is much easier in the early stages of a venture, before there is an enormous escalation of committed time and energy. — Tina Seelig

Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy. — Charles Manson

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes — Marcus Terentius Varro

Don't think for one minute that you are any less worthy of love and peace and harmony just because of all the hate spewed by human devils. Because that is what those haters are, you know, devils! — Scylar Tyberius

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across. — Frank Laubach

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
[Lat., Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit
Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea
Virtute me involvo, probamque
Pauperiem sine dote quaero.] — Horace