Deltanet Quotes & Sayings

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time. — John Cale

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. — Havelock Ellis

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pleasant words are the food of love. — Ovid

Where Buddha and Tao Meet:
Stop seeking pleasures,
Satisfy your natural wants;
Break clean from ambitions,
Escape from the urge to improve,
Be like a kid
And salvation will come of itself. — Jack Kerouac

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic. — Chris Lilley

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst

I am on the divorce detox diet. I only eat younger men — Erla-Mari Diedericks

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ... — Jesse Ventura

The only difference between the two groups was that the students conceded that they were influenced by the anchor, while the professionals denied that influence. — Daniel Kahneman

The resting place of my soul is a beautiful grove where my knowledge of you lives. — Kahlil Gibran

Fear? That's it, Francis. The little slum boy still fears loss of job. Fears he'll be cast into the outer darkness and deafened by the weeping, the wailing, the gnashing. Brave, imaginative teacher encourages teenagers to sing recipes but wonders when the axe will fall, when Japanese visitors will shake their heads and report him to Washington. Japanese visitors will instantly detect in my classroom signs of America's degeneracy and wonder how they could have lost the war. And — Frank McCourt

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have
to ensure that right. — Lyndon B. Johnson