Des Silent Quotes & Sayings

I've got a lot of good friends - the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets - both owners are friends of mine. — Mitt Romney

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. — Francis Bacon

Let us ponder over this basic truth until we are steeped in it, until it becomes as familiar to us as our awareness of shapes or our reading of words: God, at his most vitally active and most incarnate, is not remote from us, wholly apart from the sphere of the tangible; on the contrary, at every moment he awaits us in the activity, the work to be done, which every moment brings. He is, in a sense, at the point of my pen, my pick, my paint-brush, my needle - and my heart and my thought. It is by carrying to its natural completion the stroke, the line, the stitch I am working on that I shall lay hold on that ultimate end towards which my will at its deepest levels tends.1 — Michael Frost

Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. — Howard Scott

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know. — Michelle Obama

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. — Robert Breault

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours. — Demetri Martin

There are things that must be destroyed
or they'll destroy us. — Ayn Rand

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. — Terry Pratchett

Her room is full of books by people who have radio hours. It's the gospel according to Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, and Aimee Semple McPherson - American dynamism gilded onto a platform of individual redemption. It's religion as detergent. — Carlene Bauer