Dekatron Quotes & Sayings

It's because we love a person that we love the world. And we want it to be better. — Carlos Franz

Anthropomorphism originally meant the attribution of human characteristics to God. It is curious that the word is now used almost exclusively to ascribe human characteristics
such as fidelity or altruism or pride, or emotions such as love, embarrassment, or sadness
to the nonhuman animal. One is guilty of anthropomorphism, though it is no longer a sacrilegious word. It is a derogatory, dismissive one that connotes a sort of rampant sentimentality. It's just another word in the arsenal of the many words used to attack the animal rights movement. — Joy Williams

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity. — John Nash

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural. — Anthony Trollope

Why was this more difficult for me than for my father? I didn't know for certain that it was. But where I wanted to linger, he wanted to speed up. He wanted to rush through his Shepelevo, so he could again leave it behind and forget. With our American eyes we saw our past life. There was so much that needed to be forgotten. I was crushed by the relentless poverty of it. But the smell, the heady, intoxicating smell, more powerful even than the sight of Shepelevo. The sight of Shepelevo tore us up inside. Yet the smell was nothing but bliss. — Paullina Simons

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked. — Susan Meissner

Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: "Contempt for death." For us as artists, read "failure. — Steven Pressfield

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition. — Lajos Kossuth

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration. — Philip Greenspun

Norman Rockwell saved my life. — Jane Allen Petrick

Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance. (81) — Robert Whitaker

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage. — W. Somerset Maugham