Delvista Quotes & Sayings

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities. — Voltaire

We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland. — Ameen Rihani

apparently preparing to put an end to their — Phyllis A. Humphrey

As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness. — John Trudell

We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him. — Virginia Woolf

Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven. — J.I. Packer

The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them — James Johnson

What you see as imperfection draws me to you. People grow languorous from their joy. They derive strength from their pain. — Chelsea Pitcher

What I still don't get though," ventured John. "Is why you did it?"
"Did what?"
"Put that dress on in the first place."
"I don't know really," said Dennis, a puzzled look crossing his face. "I suppose it's because it was fun."
"Fun?" said John.
"Well you know when we were younger and we used to run around the garden pretending to be Daleks or Spiderman or whatever?"
"Yeah."
"It felt like that. Like playing," said Dennis confidently. — David Walliams

Fog spilled from the heights of San Francisco like the liquid it almost was. On better days it spread across the bay and took over Oakland street by street, a thing you saw coming, a change you watched happening to you, a season on the move. Where it encountered redwoods, the most local of rains fell. Where it found open space, its weightless pale passage seemed both endless and like the end of all things. It was a temporary sadness, the more beautiful for being sad, the more precious for being temporary. It was the slow song in minor that the rock-and-roll sun then chased away. — Jonathan Franzen

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn. — Stephen Coonts

I'm not all that well-educated or well-read, and I always feel a little intimidated about that. I perceive things on a much more instinctive level instead of intellectualizing things. — Theresa Russell

As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated - but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water. — Katherine McIntyre

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards. — Ted Nelson