Despeon Quotes & Sayings

Become so good they can't ingore you,
and you are on the path to success.
Become so good they can't stand you,
and you are on the path to greatness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Mixed with the resinous scent of the firs there came another smell, strong and fragrant, yet sharp - the perfume of flowers, but of some kind unknown to Hazel. He followed it to its source at the edge of the wood. It came from several thick patches of soapwort growing along the edge of the pasture. Some of the plants were not yet in bloom, their buds curled in pink, pointed spirals held in the pale green calices, but most were already star-flowering and giving off their strong scent. The bats were hunting among the flies and moths attracted to the soapwort. — Richard Adams

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.' — David Puttnam

Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them and they go to rust. — George R R Martin

If you don't keep your country clean, nobody can do that for you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. — Henry Ward Beecher

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. — H.G.Wells

Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul — Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Buildings had collapsed-once tall and mighty, now headstones for the thousands buried underneath. — Marv Wolfman

In my Art
I have but
one fear:
that we will
fail to be
fearless. — Clive Barker

There's only one woman I want. — Katie Reus

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available. — John Green