Desmedido Quotes & Sayings

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most. — Uta Hagen

There is a feeling of deep universalism, in the wake of the splendid words of Democritus: "To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe. — Carlo Rovelli

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him? — Mahatma Gandhi

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own. — Junot Diaz

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know. — Daniel Kahneman

We should therefore, with grace and optimism, embrace NOMA's tough-minded demand: Acknowledge the personal character of these human struggles about morals and meanings, and stop looking for definite answers in nature's construction. But many people cannot bear to surrender nature as a "transitional object"
a baby's warm blanket for adult comfort. But when we do (for we must), nature can finally emerge in her true form: not as a distorted mirror of our needs, but as our most fascinating companion. Only then can we unite the patches built by our separate magisteria into a beautiful and coherent quilt called wisdom. — Stephen Jay Gould

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. — Barney Frank

He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it. — Rabindranath Tagore

The Cockney accent was almost impenetrable. *Nothing* was "nuffin," and aitches were dropped from and attached to the wrong words, and some of the vowels seemed to have arrived from another planet. — Loretta Chase

In the wave lies the secret of creation. — Walter Russell

I literally fell into this business. I never came down one day and said, "Atticus' thought of the day ... I want to be an actor!" My mom and I would always read story books out loud together and I loved doing character voices and playing with my voice. — Atticus Shaffer

Leadership is not for the faint of heart — Bill Hybels

I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting. — William T. Vollmann