Derivare Quotes & Sayings

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world. — Jonathan Powell

It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power. — Mark Pellegrino

They have not left me (as my hopes have) since;
They follow me- they lead me through the years.
They are my ministers- yet I their slave.
Their office is to illumine and enkindle-
My duty, to be saved by their bright light,
And purified in their electric fire,
And sanctified in their elysian fire. — Edgar Allan Poe

I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone. — Ronnie O'Sullivan

Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides. — Bryan Batt

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. — George Santayana

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it. — Lech Walesa

Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway. — Patrick Rothfuss

Do not fear to think even the most not-probable. — Bram Stoker

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss ... " He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare. — Wendelin Van Draanen

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining. — Kate Chopin