Des Oconnor Quotes & Sayings

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools. — William Penn

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.' — Jenny Offill

The sharper your knife, the less you cry ... for me, it also means cutting those things that get in the way of your passion and living your life the way it is meant to be lived. — Kathleen Flinn

Did you know that rats can't vomit?" "Okay, enough. No more rat trivia. — Richard Paul Evans

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid. — Christopher Durang

If we try to run the economy for the benefit of a single group or class, we shall injure or destroy all groups, including the members of the very class for whose benefit we have been trying to run it. We must run the economy for everybody — Henry Hazlitt

You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit. — Stephen Decatur

Dreams have a long history of delivering messages. At the very least they have been considered meaningful and mysterious. — Deepak Chopra

The man who shuns and fears everything and stands up to nothing becomes a coward; the man who is afraid of nothing at all, but marches up to every danger becomes foolhardy. Similarly the man who indulges in pleasure and refrains from none becomes licentious (akolastos); but if a man behaves like a boor (agroikos) and turns his back on every pleasure, he is a case of insensibility. Thus temperance and courage are destroyed by excess and deficiency and preserved by the mean. — Aristotle.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards — Frances G. Wickes

People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music. — James Taylor

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances. — John Eliot

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always. — Mark E. Hyman