Demetre Jewelers Quotes & Sayings

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships? — W. D. Richter

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. — Chinua Achebe

The rigorousness of restraint is other than the one of the "exactitude" of a loose, indifferent "reasoning" which belongs equally to everyone and whose results are compelling within the sphere of its own claims to certainty. Such results are compelling, however, only because the claim to truth is content with the correctness that comes from deduction and from insertion into a regulated and calculable order. — Martin Heidegger

They see nothing indecent in sexual intercourse, whether heterosexual or homosexual, and indulge in it quite openly, in full view of everyone. The only exception was Socrates, who was always swearing that his relations with young men were purely Platonic, but nobody believed him for a moment, and Hyacinthus and Narcissus gave first-hand evidence to the contrary. — Lucian Of Samosata

Truth - all that matters;
For it is all that endures — Joel A. Kasparian

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. — Wendell Phillips

Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almighty sitting above the firmament the agent in moving the heavenly bodies about it with his own hands, so now a race of biological thinkers had destroyed the old idea of a Creator minutely contriving and fashioning all animals to suit the needs and purposes of man. — Andrew Dickson White

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on. — Norman Vincent Peale

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. — Lynne Truss

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg

You did not invent marriage. God did. — Ken Ham

That heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love. — Ari Berk

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? — Algernon H. Blackwood