Desanimated Quotes & Sayings

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir

The plan is not what you think. — Loren Eiseley

We must re-learn to be alone. — Ann Morrow Lindbergh

Not coming from a film background, be it a teeny-weeny role or a big role, I have done it with a lot of dignity and fought my way through. But the only thing that kept me going is that I am the sort of person who doesn't take no for an answer. If someone rejects me, I will be out to prove that person wrong in my own way. — Shilpa Shetty

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'
Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson

I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals. — Josh Cooke

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something. — Molefi Kete Asante

Life is so precious, it should be shared. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading? — Henry David Thoreau

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be. — Lawrence Eagleburger

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks. — Armand Hammer