Derrumban Quotes & Sayings

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder — David J. C. MacKay

All the rare and royal names
Wormy sheepskin yet retains — John Millington Synge

People in New York go to Calcutta to get some relief from begging — Bill Bryson

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb. — Emily Carr

No language is rude that can boast polite writers. — Aubrey Beardsley

What the Gospels offer is not a philosophical explanation of evil - what it is or why it's there - but the story of an event in which the living God deals with it — N. T. Wright

Fathers, you cannot delegate your duty as the head of the home. Mothers, rear your children in righteousness-do not attempt to save the world and let your own fireside fall apart. A 'Home Evening' once a week where parents and children can all be together to discuss matters, exhibit their talents, enjoy inspiring reading and have some recreation, is a good protector against the breakdown of the family. The duty of parents is to be of help to each other and to their children-then comes their duty to their neighbors, community, nation, and world-in that order. — Ezra Taft Benson

Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can't use what you can't find. — Peter Morville

If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married. You would be a set of unfortunate bachelors. Not, however, that that would alter you much. — Oscar Wilde