Desvernine Associates Quotes & Sayings

We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own? — Wei Jingsheng

There is but one art, to omit. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Everything is human. The Spaniard's fear of God, his humility, his solemnity, his scrupulous austerity is a very worthy form of humanity, — Thomas Mann

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose. — Arija Bareikis

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise. — Barbara Walters

I'm not sure if you would consider this a dream or a memory, because it actually happened, but when I fall asleep I see the room in which I mourned the death of my son. For those of you who were there, you will remember how we sat without speaking, easting only as much as we had to. You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked it's wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was the first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to race it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was? Who was with me when I mourned the death of my son, when I excused myself to bury that bird with my own hands? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Most people - and I'm guilty of it as well - think of passion as hot, fiery, impulsive. But listening to you made me realize that passion can be a deep, warm, steady flame too. The kind of fire that keeps a man warm at night - or melts an ice wall that would drown a flashier spark. — Rowan Speedwell

I have said no
To everything, in order to get at myself.
I have wiped away moonlight like mud ... — Wallace Stevens

It knew things, that smile. — Julie Anne Long

It is the evil mind that gets first hold on all of us. Learning virtue means unlearning vice. We — Seneca.

Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable? — Stephen Richards

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. — Alexander Pope

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place. — Jon Brion

Everything takes you back to yourself. When you get there, you know you never left. You only dreamt you left. You have never been other than that. You are only dreaming due to the idea of 'I am the body.' — Mooji