Deedy Vincent Quotes & Sayings

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been. — Neal A. Maxwell

Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt. — Salvador Minuchin

The joy of a return is worth the price one pays at the moment of departure. — Andrea Bocelli

Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14. — Nadia Comaneci

The country is an amazing paradox. In other lands, when a man eats to his fullest day after day, that man becomes fat ... sleepy ... piggish. But in this land ... it seems the more you have the more aggressive you become. — Stephen King

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen

Well, once again we are invaded. And, humiliatingly, by a lifeform which is absurd. My colleague Tim Powers once said that Martians could invade us simply by putting on funny hats, and we'd never notice. It's a sort of low-budget invasion. I guess we're at the point where we can be amused by the idea of Earth being invaded. (And this is when they really zap you. — Philip K. Dick

You mean to say a family of hot-tempered Mafia people are all cosying up with each other on a Saturday night to sit down and watch a movie about a family of hot-tempered Mafia people...? Is that really what you're telling me? — Catherine Doyle

Even now that feeling would sometimes spring up. The sense of leaving himself. Of observing his own pain as if it were not his own. — Haruki Murakami

Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends. — Nancy Gibbs

Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart... — Tennessee Williams

Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history. If they were just words, we wouldn't write songs or listen to them. We wouldn't beg to be read to as kids. If they were just words, then stories wouldn't have been around since before we could write. We wouldn't have learned to write. If they were just words, people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, and stop aching because of them." (p. 210) (Henry Jones) — Cath Crowley

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. — William James

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense. — Michael Glawogger