Dell Hymes Quotes & Sayings

You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity — Ikechukwu Joseph

To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! ... Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it! — Neal A. Maxwell

The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are evidenced by careful opinions. All guides to judgment available to judges are habitually consulted and respected. It has established a tradition of freedom from bias and pressures. It deals with a subject that is highly specialized and so complex as to be the despair of judges. It is relatively better staffed for its task than is the judiciary. — Robert H. Jackson

Require ... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. — Robert A. Dahl

That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen. — Alfred Hitchcock

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain. — Brent Weeks

The desire to know and to understand are themselves conative, i.e., have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the "basic needs" we have already discussed. — Abraham H. Maslow

Abandon ideology. It's time for every American to think for themselves about the financial, social and political issues that will shape our future. — Richard L. DeProspo

My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look. — Robert Barry

There is a deeper life than the life we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye and this is the life important and the life everlasting. — Sean O'Casey

Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics:
- missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe.
- contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation.
- universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor. — Mother Teresa

Where there is no alternative there is no problem. — James Burnham

When the crowd is going south, your inner mind might tell you that your goal lies to the north. Then go the unpopular way; go north. — Oluwole Komolafe

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on. — Subcomandante Marcos