Deni Diderot Quotes & Sayings

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect. — Carroll Quigley

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn't expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out. — Jennifer Egan

It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel. — Dan Davis

We are not born to survive. Only to live. — W.S. Merwin

Render me the texture of flesh. Pick me what it is, in the timbre of the voice, that marks out the living from the dead. — Hilary Mantel

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?' — Joy Covey

A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand. — Sheila Kaye-Smith

Jacqueline ran like she had been saving all her running for this moment, for this place where no one could see her, or scold her, or tell her that ladies didn't behave that way, sit down, slow down, you'll rip your dress, you'll stain your tights, be good. She was getting grass stains on her knees and mud under her fingernails, and she knew she'd regret both those things later, but in the moment, she didn't care. She was finally running. She was finally free.
Jillian ran more slowly, careful not to trample the flowers, slowing down whenever she felt like it to look around herself in wide-eyed wonder. No one was telling her to go faster, to run harder, to keep her eyes on the ball; no one wanted this to be a competition. For the first time in years, she was running solely for the joy of running, and when she tripped and fell into the flowers, she went down laughing. — Seanan McGuire

Next time you're faced with a credit-purchase decision, wait. Don't say no necessarily. Just wait. I challenge you to present your need to the Lord before presenting it to a bank, and see what He does with it. — Charles R. Swindoll

I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films. — Roger Moore

To work problems out for yourself, to find you own way out of ignorance, to know the pleasure of knowing - these things improve the quality of life. Unfashionable, even impractical, but true. — Jessica Zafra

If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone. — Dada Bhagwan

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it. — Julie Delpy

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind. — John Milton