Derekas Banner Quotes & Sayings

Oh, this has got to be something humorus. — Mo Rocca

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity. — Thomas Malthus

I'm a lot less serious than people think. — Alan Rickman

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball. — Derek Jeter

[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction. — Ameen Rihani

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. [ Brihadaranyaka IV.4.5 ] — Anonymous

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too. — Tom Chatfield

I'm just a big old nerd. — Claire Danes

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. — Henry David Thoreau

Our fingers unlace so slowly that I am certain some part of me has been left behind on her fingertips. — Mary E. Pearson

Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that. — Sebastian Pinera

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have. — Ralph Abernathy

Taft generally ate alone. Forever struggling to lose weight, he limited his midday meal to an apple or a glass of water. — Doris Kearns Goodwin