Destoroyah Quotes & Sayings

Three things to give up to be happier:
1. Never complain, condemn, or criticize.
2. Give up anger, fear, and resentment.
3. Give up the desire to impress and control others. — Debasish Mridha

The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance. — Ming-Dao Deng

Are you laughing? I can feel you laughing. My life isn't funny!" "Babe, your life should be a prime-time sitcom. — Janet Evanovich

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid. — Carl Sagan

I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

It is fine to be committed to work, but our minds need time to recover and our bodies need to move. — Annika Sorensen

the greatest thing about having so many laws was that you could pick and choose, and move on to the next when the last lost its magic. — Jennifer Traig

We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't. — Alberto Fujimori

My mother said I was at an awkward age. I didn't feel especially awkward, so I presumed she meant that it was awkward for them. — Joanna Cannon

The heart of a city
Is the soul of a man
It winds like a river
Through the heart of the land
They can tear down a building
They can tear down a park
They can strike at a symbol
But they can't strike the heart — Janis Ian

I'm a writer; I can float for hours on a word like "amethyst" or "broom" or the way so many words sound like what they are: "earth" so firm and basic, "air" so light, like a breath. You can't imagine them the other way around: She plunged her hands into the rich brown air. Sometimes I think I would like to be a word - not a big important word, like "love" or "truth," just a small ordinary word, like "orange" or "inkstain" or "so," a word that people use so often and so unthinkingly that its specialness has all been worn away, like the roughness on a pebble in a creek bed, but that has a solid heft when you pick it up, and if you hold it to the light at just the right angle you can glimpse the spark at its core. — Katha Pollitt