Despote Clair Quotes & Sayings

Jason Lycurgus. Who, driven perhaps by the compulsion of the flamboyant name given him by the sardonic embittered woodenlegged indomitable father who perhaps still believed with his heart that what he wanted to be was a classicist schoolteacher, rode up the Natchez Trace one day in 1811 with a pair of fine pistols and one meagre saddlebag on a small lightwaisted but stronghocked mare which could do the first two furlongs in definitely under the halfminute and the next two in not appreciably more, though that was all. — William Faulkner

To love a thing means wanting it to live. — Confucius

It is not the part of divinity to go to humanity and to modify itself in any shape, manner or form; rather it is up to humanity to make itself available to divinity. — Frederick Lenz

Your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do! — T. Harv Eker

The only thing that completes love is a heart; words and actions come later, sometimes never. — Shikha Kaul

Sentences take shape from the words that are stacked on top of one another in the dusty chambers of my mind, waiting to be used--words that now peel off my lips, trembling as they come to life. — Minka Pradelski

Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are. — Alice Walker

People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it. — Paulo Coelho

[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through all of those already, in silence, except death. And I remind myself all the time now, that if I were to have been born mute, and had maintained an oath of silence my whole life for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die. — Audre Lorde

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
[Ger., Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken,
Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe