Degetica Quotes & Sayings

You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. To-day we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please. — Lucy Stone

Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old. — Xunzi

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart ... — Euripides

Once I accepted the fact that I was bad luck, I shied away from group activities. And groups. And activities. I started spending a lot of time in my room, tucked under my covers reading books. There's only so much damage a book can do, and I wasn't worried about hurting myself. Accidentally hurting yourself is way better than hurting other people.
Sure, I got lonely for a while. But getting invited to slumber parties just wasn't worth the stress of wondering if I might accidentally burn down the house with my flat iron or be the only survivor of a freak sleepover massacre. And loneliness is just like everything else - if you endure it long enough, you get used to it. — Paula Stokes

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago. — Tommy Franks

A tangible object passes complete into my brain with the warmth of life upon it, and occupies the same place that it does in space; for, without egotism, the mind is as large as the universe. — Helen Keller

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person. — Pope Francis

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality. — Emil Nolde

For all those who believed me,
and for all those who didn't.
It can't be easy hearing
things that you shouldn't. — Icarus X.

I was born a character actor. — Charles Durning

concept: me, sailing through the milky way with many-coloured stars caught in my hair. there's no pain up here, only laughter and peace — L.J. Buchanan

Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through. — Kevin Hart

I'll still love you because you are mine. Mine, Brynne. In my heart you are, and nobody can take that away from me. Not even you. — Raine Miller

I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. — Joyce Carol Oates

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it. — Stanley Hauerwas