Deiminase Quotes & Sayings

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one. — Francis Bacon

But there could be no new beginning, nor would one be important. We are not aware when new beginnings arrive; we only discover them later when they have already engulfed us, when everything merely continues. Then we believe that everything could have been different, but it could not have, and so we rush into springtime, so as not to think about nonexistent beginnings or unpleasant continuations. — Mesa Selimovic

In the end, the most important second chance you'll ever have is the one you give yourself — Melody Grace

Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they are rich and guilty than if they are poor and innocent. A system that denies the poor the legal help they need, that makes wealth and status more important than culpability, must be changed. Walter's case taught me that fear and anger are a threat to justice; they can infect a community, a state, or a nation and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us. — Bryan Stevenson

I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world ... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all. — Jimmy Cliff

The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant. — Mario Savio

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object. — Yoko Ono

Every job has a unique situational circumstance. — Ron Perlman

Hardships lead to strength of character. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is interesting to me how technology has in many ways facilitated and refined the practice of deception — Suzanne Rindell

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor. — Felix Wantang

Tis not for golden eloquence I pray,
A godlike tongue to move a stony heart
Methinks it were full well to be apart
In solitary uplands far away,
Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray,
Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face
Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place. — Frederick Tennyson

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us. — Jim Bakker

O Charidas, what of the under world?"
"Great darkness."
"And what of the resurrection?"
"A lie."
"And Pluto?"
"A fable; we perish utterly. — Callimachus