Desordenes Quotes & Sayings

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it. — Adolf Hitler

Hugh's old drawing teacher used to have one, and though it had been ten years since he'd taken the woman's class, I could suddenly recall him talking about it. "If I had a skeleton like Minerva's ... ," he used to say. I don't remember the rest of the sentence, as I'd always been sidetracked by the teacher's name, Minerva. Sounds like a witch. — David Sedaris

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice? — Charles Olson

That which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species. — David Hume

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood. — M. Russell Ballard

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride — Seneca The Younger

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. — Kevin Spacey

I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth. — Andrew Cuomo

It is impossible to serve God without serving one another. — Alistair Begg

Life is too short to waste on unproductive endeavors — Blake L. Higginbotham

Consider the iatrogenics of newspapers. They need to fill their pages every day with a set of news items - particularly those news items also dealt with by other newspapers. But to do things right, they ought to learn to keep silent in the absence of news of significance. Newspapers should be of two-line length on some days, two hundred pages on others - in proportion with the intensity of the signal. But of course they want to make money and need to sell us junk food. And junk food is iatrogenic. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If I didn't know better,I'd think she arranged this snowstorm just so we'd all have to stay indoors for a while. — Rachel Hawthorne

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North. — Justina Chen

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. — Brandon Mull