Deenies Quotes & Sayings

Faith is developed in a setting where we cannot see ahead. — Dallin H. Oaks

These are the oldest memories on earth, the time codes carried in every chromosome and gene. Every step we've taken in our evolution is a milestone inscribed with organic memories. From the enzymes controlling the carbon-dioxide cycle, to the organization of the brachial plexus and the nerve pathways of the pyramid cells of the mid-brain. Each is a record of a thousand decisions taken in a chemical crisis. Just as psychoanalysis reconstructs the original traumatic situation in order to release the repressed material, so we are now being plunged back into the archaeopsychic past, uncovering the ancient taboos and drives that have been dormant for epochs. — J.G. Ballard

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads. — Jack Germond

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity. — John Dalton

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity. — Julia Roberts

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it. — Sloane Crosley

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. — Winston Churchill

While looking one's best was important to my mother, looking natural took precedence. — Betty Jamie Chung

Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom. — Vladimir Nabokov

The figure is not lifting the wands, he is holding them down. The difficulty consists in holding back what is, by nature, meant to fly. — Isabel Radow Kliegman