Despard Analytics Quotes & Sayings

I do not believe that my generation, my cousins who have been educated in the American way, all of whom are MDs or PhDs, have any comparable learning ... I am not saying anything so trite as that life is fuller when people have myths to live by. I mean rather that a life based on the Book is closer to the truth, that it provides the material for deeper research in and access to the real nature of things. Without the great revelations, epics, and philosophies as part of our natural vision, there is nothing to see out there, and eventually little left inside. The Bible is not the only means to furnish a mind, but without a book of similar gravity, read with the gravity of the potential believer, it will remain unfurnished. — Allan Bloom

Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men. — Nathaniel Fick

My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked. — Edith Konecky

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me. — Eric Liu

Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements. — Dan Brown

When my sister was born, family legend has it that I asked my mother if we could reverse roles: "Let's tell her I'm her mother and you're her sister. She won't ever know!" Over — Lena Dunham

Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover. — Caprice Crane

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ... — Pauline Kael

Don't allow one setback to define you. Your true self is beyond measure. Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Move on to where you flourish. — Assegid Habtewold

Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it? Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever — L.M. Montgomery

All I want to do is model. The reason I'm coming back is for the same reasons that I became a model initially. It's about the clothes and the creation of great pictures. I thought I was old and that I earned my retirement, and enough! It's not enough. I want more. And I'm lucky that I still have that option. — Linda Evangelista

The proud heart of man is very anxious to have a hand in the justification of the soul before God; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me. — Oscar Wilde