Degler Quotes & Sayings

What makes a man special is the way he decides to live his life". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The earth was all before me. With a heart
Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty,
I look about; and should the chosen guide
Be nothing better than a wandering cloud,
I cannot miss my way. — William Wordsworth

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

It doesn't matter the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog. — Mark Twain

The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer — Aaron Betsky

Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): "No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class." George Washington was the richest man in America. John Hancock was a prosperous Boston merchant. Benjamin Franklin was a wealthy printer. And so on. On the other hand, town mechanics, laborers, and seamen, as well as small farmers, were swept into "the people" by the rhetoric of the Revolution, by the camaraderie of military service, by the distribution of some land. Thus was created a substantial body of support, a national consensus, something that, even with the exclusion of ignored and oppressed people, could be called "America. — Howard Zinn

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared. — Pema Chodron

The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common plague of humanity. It is:
The fallacy of attributing to one cause what is due to many causes. — Alfred Korzybski

When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older the light still reaches you, sparkling as it comes up through your memories. And if you're lucky as you travel forward through time, you'll bring the whole of yourself along with you, gathering your skirts and leaving nothing behind, nothing to obscure the light. But if a Bad Thing happens part of you is seared into place, and trapped for ever at that time. The rest of you moves onward, dealing with all the todays and tomorrows, but something, some part of you, is left behind. That part blocks the light, colours the rest of your life, but worse than that, it's alive. Trapped for ever at that moment, and alone in the dark, that part of you is still alive. — Michael Marshall Smith

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers. — Dan Bejar

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. — Aphra Behn

You're perfect exactly the way you are."
I smiled again and let my eyes fall shut. "Damn straight. — Aimee Carter