Defossey Quotes & Sayings

I got no idea wht a writer of a book should have respect. Or even get the time of day, unless he's a prophet. It's a sign of our present-day hell. Books, think about it, the writer of a book does envy, sloth, gluttony, lust, larceny, greed or what? Oh, vanity. He don't miss a single one of them. He is a peeping Tom, an onanist, a busybody, and he's faking humility every one of God's minutes. — Barry Hannah

An old woman selling piglets from a basket stopped to stare at him, a knight with a half-familiar face went to one knee, and two men-at-arms pissing in a ditch turned and sprayed each other. — George R R Martin

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us? — Soledad O'Brien

Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much I sort of knew. But the very best cooking, I discovered, is also a form of intimacy. — Michael Pollan

In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed. — Gloria Estefan

The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people. — Darryl Pinckney

What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich? — Upton Sinclair

Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution. — Ben Shahn

Let us go forth and unconquer the world! — Tom Althouse

No misery to be saved from . . . So evil is necessary, in order to the highest happiness of the creature, and the completeness of that communication of God, for which he made the world; because the creature's — Austin Fischer

Christians are meant to have the same vocation as their King, that of cross-bearers. It is this conscience of a high calling and of partnership with Jesus which brings gladness in tribulations, which makes Christians enter prisons for their faith with the joy of a bridegroom entering the bridal room. — Richard Wurmbrand

We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority. — Margaret Thatcher