Desmonde Lane Quotes & Sayings

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell. — Martin Luther

Western Civilization rests on great men, and nothing else. And we are no longer producing great men. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill. — Richard Le Gallienne

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. — Joseph Campbell

The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God. — David Swing

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. — Willa Cather

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God. — Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do. — Sean Covey

I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not. — Deborah Eisenberg