Despojados Quotes & Sayings

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. — Rita Dove

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family? — Billy Graham

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. — William Shakespeare

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity. — H.L. Mencken

Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time. — Terry Pratchett

The first miracle Jesus performed was instant winemaking. No wonder people loved Him! He probably received a bunch of wedding invitations after that one. — Dillon Burroughs

I was with it Jim, really with it. — Mezz Mezzrow

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives. — E.F. Benson

After a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door. — Wallace Stevens