Despota En Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you. — James Patterson

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas. — Tracy K. Smith

What good is it to me to have an authority always ready to see to the tranquil enjoyment of my pleasures, to brush away all dangers from my path without my having to think about them, if such an authority, as well as removing thorns from under my feet, is also the absolute master of my freedom or if it so takes over all activity and life that around it all must languish when it languishes, sleep when it sleeps and perish when it perishes. — Alexis De Tocqueville

He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come. — Erich Maria Remarque

Action is Character. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The price of greatness is servanthood, sacrifice and humility — Linda Davis

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke