Demetras Alteration Quotes & Sayings

I felt confident at 24, but I am a better driver now. — Jenson Button

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better. — Gordon B. Hinckley

It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives. — Brandon Stanton

I actually enjoy being on my own, because it allows me to do what I do. — Bill Kirchen

Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands,
Who understands the time and place,
The person, manner, and the grace,
Which fools neglect; so that we find,
If all the requisites are join'd,
From whence a perfect joke must spring,
A joke's a very serious thing. — Charles Churchill

If you can mentally see the end of the journey, then your body will physically find a way to achieve that goal. — Greg Plitt

In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly inescapable habit of mind, for despite all the customary pretense that 'man' and 'humanity' are terms which apply equally to both sexes, the fact is hardly obscured that in practice, general application favors the male far more often than the female as referent, or even sole referent, for such designations. — Kate Millett

Ever'one here think it easy for me. I be this good little church boy from Mississippi with my good little church-goin' Mammy, and since I be this stupid country nigger with the big faith, I don't have no troubles. Well, it just don't work that way" ... "I see my friend Williams get ate by a tiger," ... "I see Broyer get his face ripped off by a mine. What you think I do all night, sit around thankin' Sweet Jesus? Raise my palms to sweet heaven and cry hallelujah? You know what I do? You know what I do? I lose my heart." Cortell's throat suddenly tightened, strangling his words. "I lose my heart." ... "I sit there and don't see any hope. Hope gone." Cortell was seeing his dead friends. "Then, the sky turn gray again in the east, and you know what I do? I choose all over to keep believin'. All along I know Jesus could be just some fairy tale, and I could be just this one big fool. I choose anyway." ... "It ain't no easy thing. — Karl Marlantes

Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire. — Georges Bataille

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Lord, you're the only one I can truly confide in without you judging me, or throwing dirt back in my face months later. — Colishia S. Benjamin