Denoyers Quotes & Sayings

The warm love has the coldest end. — Socrates

Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

We must make the intellectual world safe for democracy. But in the conditions of modern mental anarchy, neither that nor any other ideal is safe. just as Protestants appealed from priests to the Bible, and did not realize that the Bible also could be questioned, so republicans appealed from kings to the people, and did not realize that the people also could be defied. There is no end to the dissolution of ideas, the destruction of all tests of truth, that has become possible since men abandoned the attempt to keep a central and civilized Truth, to contain all truths and trace out and refute all errors. Since then, each group has taken one truth at a time and spent the time in turning it into a falsehood. We have had nothing but movements; or in other words, monomanias. But the Church is not a movement but a meeting-place; the trysting-place of all the truths in the world. — G.K. Chesterton

being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope. — Nikolai Gogol

I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience. — Joel Edgerton

The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet. — P.G. Wodehouse

The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself — Miguel Ruiz

One night, he confessed to me that he was horrified by his first experience of the radical methods used by the Wehrmacht and the SS to combat the partisans; but his profound conviction that only a barbarous, completely inhuman enemy could necessitate such extreme measures had in the end been reinforced. "In the SD, you must have seen some atrocious things," he added; I assured him I had, but preferred not to elaborate. Instead — Jonathan Littell

If you don't start, you're finished. — Max McKeown

I'm afraid because I know I can't fight forever — M.H.S. Pourri

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other. — Charles Simic

The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whose author promises a blessing to those who read it. — Billy Graham

God already has our life plan plotted out with exacting precision and perfect timing, and sometimes we have to be patient in order to see God's promises come to pass. — Adam Gellert

Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there. — Tatiana Maslany

When you're doing what's right, on and off the field, the Lord steps in and plays a part. — Austin Collie