Despertastes Quotes & Sayings

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. — Walter Savage Landor

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences. — Robert Teeter

You cannot play with Riquelme without playing for Riquelme. — Jorge Valdano

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,
Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
Pour out to all that wull. — Edmund Spenser

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them. — Daniel Greenberg

People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways ... Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating. — Phil Jackson

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid. — Mordecai Richler

If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

The orchard laid; When shower and Sun upon the Earth with fragrance fill the air, I'll linger here, and will not come, because my land is fair. ENT. When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to — J.R.R. Tolkien

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness. — Ludwig Von Mises

Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience. — David Call

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later. — David Quammen

THE foolish man thinks that little faults, little indulgences, little sins, are of no consequence; he persuades himself that so long as he does not commit flagrant immoralities he is virtuous, and even holy; but he is thereby deprived of virtue and holiness, and the world knows him accordingly; it does not reverence, adore, and love him; it passes him by; he is reckoned of no account; his influence is destroyed. The efforts of such a man to make the world virtuous, his exhortations to his fellow men to abandon great vices, are empty of substance and barren of fruitage. The insignificance which he attaches to his small vices permeates his whole character, and is the measure of his manhood. He who regards his smallest delinquencies as of the gravest nature becomes a saint. — James Allen

At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things. — George Papandreou

I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality. — Emma Donoghue