Desparsi Quotes & Sayings

Fear will kill you if you don't control it. — Robert Jordan

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean. — Aristotle.

Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings. — Seth

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. — Ron Pearce

Behind every book for young people and every global product of family entertainment, the hum of boardroom discussion about the politics of the work can be heard. — Marina Warner

James and I happened onto the scene and foiled the robber's plans. We're good at that-foiling plans,I mean. Don't you agree,Miss Ashton?"
"There seems to be very little on which we agree, Mr. Langley. — Kat Martin

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out. — Margaret Cho

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable. — Parmenides

( ... ) the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date - to work her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother's generation. ( ... ) She flouted Victorian-era conventions and scandalized her parents. In many ways, she controlled her own destiny. — Joshua Zeitz

[Concerning Lyotard's ideology:]... Theory ought to be recognized as part of the problem, not as a potential solution. — Bill Readings