Demengaison Quotes & Sayings

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. — Chen-Ning Yang

A piece of work that will make sick men whole. — William Shakespeare

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

It was Sister Hildegarde's belief that good penmanship was the defining key to success in life. — Louise Erdrich

She would almost prefer to fold her arms and sink into an eternal slumber, so that the great longing of her soul for peaceful rest would at last be gratified. — Jennifer Chiaverini

He developed several hobbies that helped him to pass the time. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is the ideal that creates the problem. If you don't have any ideals then there is no problem at all. You are a coward, so you are a coward! Because there is no ideal of being brave, you don't condemn the fact - you don't reject it, you don't repress it, you don't throw it into the basement of your being so that there is no need for you to ever look at it. Anything — Osho

If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur. — Douglas Coupland

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era. — Barbara Taylor Bradford

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor. — Ray Winstone

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing. — Tim Robbins

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life. — Michael J. Fox

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York! — Albert Brooks

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities. — Henry A. Kissinger

What is troubling is not just being average but settling for it. Everyone knows that average-ness is, for most of us, our fate. And in certain matters - looks, money, tennis - we would do well to accept this. But in your surgeon, your child's pediatrician, your police department, your local high school? When the stakes are our lives and the lives of our children, we want no one to settle for average. — Atul Gawande