Dessies Quotes & Sayings

Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers. — Bertolt Brecht

My foes have missed their mark in this shooting at me: I am not the man: I wish that they themselves be guiltless. If all the fornicators and adulterers in England were hanged up by the neck till they be dead, John Bunyan, the object of their envy, would be still alive and well. — John Bunyan

Only one store on the block looked open, its windows glaring with neon. The sign above the door said something like CRSTUY'S WATRE BDE ALPACE. "Crusty's Water Bed Palace?" Grover translated. It didn't sound like a place I'd ever go except in an emergency, but this definitely qualified. — Rick Riordan

Until you know how to change yourself for the better, you cannot change others. — Debasish Mridha

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them. — Michel De Montaigne

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life. — Gabriela Sabatini

I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there. — April Bloomfield

NDA not only stands for National Democratic Alliance but is also the National Development Alliance. — Narendra Modi

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that. — Andy Rooney

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present. — Maya Angelou

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it. — Herbert Hoover

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. — Keri Russell

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature. — Rene Descartes

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you. — Alan Cohen