Deterings Quotes & Sayings

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott

Greek writers of the fifth century B.C. have a way of speaking of, an attitude towards, religion, as though it were wholly a thing of joyful confidence, a friendly fellowship with the gods, whose service is but a high festival for man. In Homer sacrifice is but, as it were, the signal for a banquet of abundant roast flesh and sweet wine; we hear nothing of fasting, of cleansing, and atonement. This we might perhaps explain as part of the general splendid unreality of the heroic saga, but sober historians of the fifth century B.C. express the same spirit. Thucydides is assuredly by nature no reveller, yet religion is to him in the main 'a rest from toil.' He makes Pericles say: 'Moreover we have provided for our spirit very many opportunities of recreation, by the celebration of games and sacrifices throughout the year. — Jane Ellen Harrison

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well. — Mick Jagger

When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back ... and add a few lemons of your own. — Clara DeLemos

If you don't act, someone else will, and you run the risk of being marginalized from this opportunity space, — Mark Raskino

It is always much more difficult for Christians to detect a fundamentally sinful attitude in other Christians than in pagans - especially if that attitude is endemic to contemporary society, thereby reducing or eliminating the "shock" force of that sin. — D. A. Carson

Everyone has their own varying means of measuring thing. Sometimes people can agree on something, but other times they can't. — Ichtys

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified. — Ho Chi Minh

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit — Pliny The Younger

I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution
such is not my taste. I wish to foster, not to blight
to earn gratitude, not to wring tears of blood
no, nor of brine: my harvest must be in smiles, in endearments, in sweet
That will do. I think I rave in a kind of exquisite delirium. I should wish now to protract this moment ad infinitum; but I dare not. So far I have governed myself thoroughly. I have acted as I inwardly swore I would act; but further might try me beyond my strength. — Charlotte Bronte

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk. — Paulo Coelho