Depositaries Quotes & Sayings

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career. — Placido Domingo

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance. — Josephine Hart

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. — John Acton

Family took a lot more than genes to hold it together — Karen Traviss

Now it is a noticeable fact that we do not much mind what men think of us, or what humiliating secret they discover of our means, parentage, or object, provided that each thinks and acts thereupon in isolation. It is the exchange of ideas about us that we dread most; and the possession by a hundred acquaintances, severally insulated, of the knowledge of our skeleton-closet's whereabouts, is not so distressing to the nerves as a chat over it by a party of half-a-dozen - exclusive depositaries though these may be. — Thomas Hardy

And part of the problem is that phone. You have that function on that fucking phone that enables you to know when your texts are opened and ignored. — Caroline Kepnes

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government. — Thomas Jefferson

But the subterranean currents that pushed so many young men to Syria from Lisleby, a Fredrikstad district of just 6,000, stand out as an example of a phenomenon none of those theories can explain: Why it is that certain towns, and even small areas within them, generate a disproportionate number of jihadists? — Anonymous

you make me want to know what goes on in that head of yours. I'll be honest: I'm not usually interested in the contents of others people's heads. My own is work enough. — Julie Buxbaum

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people. — Edward Heath

If they were afraid of him, then he must be Satan or something even worse, like maybe Sarah Palin. — Stephani Hecht

It is better that we gain what we demand by a process of negotiation which would occupy twenty years, than that by communicating a sudden shock to the interests of those who are the depositaries and dependents of power we should incur the calamity which their revenge might inflict upon us by giving the signal of ... war. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

How do I know where my doubts over their capability stop being genuine love and concern? When my belief that they must be reeducated before they can become my equal stops being a realistic appreciation of the limitations they've been taught and becomes sophistry to bolster the status quo and protect my own rights and privileges? — David Weber

I would definitely love to be a parent. — Kate Walsh