Defever Quotes & Sayings

The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Release the son from the crimes of the father. Civilized law decrees it. We — Ray Buckley

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue... — Robert Hunter

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator. — Robert Adams

He is just protective over me-" "Not protective, Tania. Consumed. — Paullina Simons

Warmth cocooned her, and she slipped into sleep without even noticing where she was. — Alice Wallis-Eton

Stay focus on your ultimate sacred goal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion. — Dana Davis

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost. — Shmuley Boteach

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified. — Chuck Palahniuk

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Here was someone you simply knew you could trust, who might nag or infuriate or sulk, but whose greatest charm lay on the most durable of virtues: loyalty. — Julia Glass

Chuang-tzu once told a story about two persons who both lost a sheep. One person got very depressed and lost himself in drinking, sex, and gambling to try to forget this misfortune. The other person decided that this would be an excellent chance for him to study the classics and quietly observe the subtleties of nature. Both men experience the same misfortune, but one man lost himself because he was too attached to the experience of loss, while the other found himself because he was able to let go of gain and loss. — Liezi

I'm honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me. — Lea Michele