Deordio Quotes & Sayings

Only a Christian culture could have produced a Voltaire or a Nietzsche. I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian Faith. — Norman Davies

Shared secrets have way of creating bonds — Amish Tripathi

The white-haired wonder leading what had to, by now, be a blocks-long parade must've finally turned on her hearing aid. Because she finally pulled into the United Methodist Church parking lot, praise God, leaving the rest of us free to party until some other octogenarian found it necessary to take to the streets after dark. In Ohio, old folks know better than to drive at night. Yet another reason Cleveland rocks. — Jennifer Rardin

In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life. — Twyla Tharp

The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it. — Andrew Tobias

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind. — W. Somerset Maugham

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art. — Orson Welles

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

It is clear that something is seriously lacking in the way we humans are going about things. But what is it that we lack? The fundamental problem, I believe, is that at every level we are giving too much attention to the external, material aspects of life while neglecting moral ethics and inner values. By inner values, I mean the qualities that we all appreciate in others, and toward which we all have a natural instinct, bequeathed by our biological nature as animals that survive and thrive only in an environment of concern, affection, and warm-heartedness-or in a single word, compassion. The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being. This is the spiritual principle from which all other positive inner value emerge. — Dalai Lama XIV

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system. — Samora Machel

God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate. — Gene Edwards