Dermaine Quotes & Sayings

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus."
A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back."
Oh man, what an opening that was. — Richelle Mead

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them. — Ruth Rendell

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it. — Ruth Reichl

The earth keeps turning but it never says why. — Marty Rubin

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago ... — R.A. Torrey

Art museums are little more than big buildings where rectangular old men, hung on the walls by their backs, wait for young people to come stand in front of them. — Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal. — Bill Hybels

She'll be ruined if she's not careful," Ella said. "Nonsense. He'd wed her in a heartbeat if he thought she'd have him," Vivi replied. "Quite." A — Sarah MacLean

It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face because they juggle the same pressures as their nonmilitary peers, all while coping as single parents while their loved ones are overseas. I wanted to help make their voices heard. — Michelle Obama

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums. — Andy Warhol

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest. — Sigrid Agren