Desolute Quotes & Sayings

I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people - we the people - are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States. — Michele Bachmann

Put to death? I thought God was supposed to be all about forgiveness, not the death penalty. — Jessica Verdi

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. — Sean Durkin

One does not consider style, because style is. — Robert Stone

We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such. — Sherri Saum

It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or not, to a deeper and more universal reality. — Eugene Ionesco

Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance. — David Ben-Gurion

Balance eases the heart. — Nathan Ballingrud

I've read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it's almost too teenager-y, or too slang-y or putting too much technology or trends in there. I try to stay pretty trend-neutral. I try not to mention too many current bands or current TV shows. — Sara Shepard

Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When you get to my age,' he says, his face softening, 'you don't waste time with regrets. In the end, you just remember the moments of joy. When all is said and done, those are the things we keep. — Sally Hepworth

A soooooooooooooooooooooon! I'm having a sooooooooooooooooooooooooon! — J.R. Ward

I think that is a very important component, to have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life. — Deepak Chopra

Aint nobody here think we could get no win but us — Kenyon Martin

In New York you've got to have all the luck. — Charles Bukowski

I can remember sittin' in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin' until somebody got done so I could finish what they left. — Chris LeDoux