Desidera Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to shake a stick at success. — Nathan Fillion

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that. — Kevin Kline

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility. — Bill Dixon

You can't help but ... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.' — Norman Schwarzkopf

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. — Paul Tillich

Science and religion are both guilty of committing atrocities," King Solomon continued. "They are not evil in and of themselves, but in the hands of evil men they can be manipulated to produce great destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you? — Karl Pilkington

By 1950, he had come to view the pedestrian as a threshold or indicator species capable of foretelling things to come - if the rights of the pedestrian were threatened, it would be an early indicator that broader freedoms of thought and action were also at risk. — Jonathan Eller

And the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars. — Eleanor Catton

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Somewhere Chesterton writes
I think it is Chesterton
that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to. — Alec Wilkinson

We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies. — Bob Holden

For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. — Emily Bronte

Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded. — Charles R. Swindoll