Demokraten Avis Quotes & Sayings

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth. — Louis Aragon

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. — George Carlin

The evangelical with his "minority complex" often forgets that he is part of a massive historical movement much larger than his own kind of church. Catholic and Protestant thought of various sorts, and Eastern Orthodoxy, can all be of help, for they share with him the basics of Biblical theism. The evangelical tends to see himself today standing alone, he supposes that nobody ever faced such issues as he now faces, and he therefore thinks in a vacuum. — Arthur F. Holmes

Moraga's expedition of 1806 added further to the nomenclature of the Sierra. After crossing the San Joaquin his party came to a place which his men called Las Mariposas because of the swarms of butterflies (mariposas) which flew into their eyes and ears. — Francis P. Farquhar

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong. — Truman Capote

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society. — Benjamin Spock

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing. — Mara Wilson

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.' — Dan Rather

What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might it have been Emma, instead of Stephanie Shaw, eating Pret A Manger sandwiches in a pencil skirt? For some time now she has had conviction that life is about to change if only because it must, and perhaps this it, perhaps this meeting is the new start. — David Nicholls

I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person. — Claudia Rankine

... he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father (John 14:12). — Kris Vallotton

You're going to turn the next page, because you still have hope. You hope there's a little something more, and it's nothing personal. People do it at the end of every book. I think that's why publishers put in all those extra pages. So you have a chance to shuffle and flip through them while it sinks in. It's over. The trip is done.

You know it's over, but you're going to turn the page anyway. — Rory Harrison