Demesiv Quotes & Sayings

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American. — Barack Obama

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. — Edward Dahlberg

If you wish Pythocles to have pleasure for ever, do not add to his pleasures, but subtract from his desires; — Seneca.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish." A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object. — Chapman Cohen

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this
in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer
and at your hands. — Jasper Fforde

In neither taste nor precision is any man's practice a court of last appeal, for writers all, both great and small, are habitual sinners against the light; and their accuser is cheerfully aware that his own work will supply ... many 'awful examples' ... — Ambrose Bierce

You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place. — Paul Allen

As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele. — Valerie June