Demenizing Quotes & Sayings

Can't be a hero if you're afraid of looking stupid. — L.D. Harkrader

The noblest revenge is to forgive — Thomas Fuller

The basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish thinker and teacher appears as a technique of survival for the oppressed. That it became, through the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. 'In him was life; and the life was the light of men.' Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that fear, hypocrisy, and hatred, the three hounds of hell that track the trail of the disinherited, need have no dominion over them. — Howard Thurman

I started writing when I was about thirteen. — Al Purdy

He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait ... — Ilona Andrews

Let any lady who is inclined to be hard on Mrs. Cadwallader inquire into the comprehensiveness of her own beautiful views, and be quite sure that they afford accommodation for all the lives which have the honor to coexist with hers. With — George Eliot

The Flasher of '04. — Wendy Mass

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered? — Paul Gauguin

We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that are sometimes of a visual nature, sometimes just about characters and then we try to structure the story. — Joachim Trier

The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion. — Ernest Holmes