Desandou Quotes & Sayings

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance. — John Maynard Keynes

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. — Sargent Shriver

The more we gained knowledge of these new totalitarian systems of mass-rule, the more we realized not only their similarity of structure, but also the fact that we had to do with a type of dominance that had been known in earlier epochs. We discovered that what the ancients called "tyrannis," or 'cheirokratia," what Sulla or the tyrants of the Italian Rennaissance had practised, and what finally alarmed the world in the French Revolution and under Napoleon, had surprisingly many similarities with modern totalitarianism, although this latter had elements with which they cannot be compared, and although it possessed means of domination unknown in past ages. — Wilhelm Ropke

Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it. — Drew Gilpin Faust

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience. — Orhan Pamuk

I am no more humble than my talents require. — Oscar Levant

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music. — Itzhak Perlman

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. — Brigitte Nielsen