Deverian Quotes & Sayings

Baby, your rhymes get me going. — Rick Remender

Anne could not believe in their having the same sort of pride, she was pleased with him for not liking Mrs Clay; — Jane Austen

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. — Oprah Winfrey

Each thinking mind is a political mind — Zaman Ali

Simply recognizing the need for change does not define leadership. The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees ... A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act on what he sees, to speak up when everyone else is silent. — Andy Stanley

I'd guess that what's behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet. — Dean Koontz

Nora, your self-pity monitor is beeping, it's telling me you're feeling sorry for yourself over something trivial and need to get a life. — L. H. Cosway

Travel now by all means - if you have the time. But travel the right way, the way I travel. I am always reading and thinking of the history and geography of a place. I see its people in terms of these, placed in the social framework of time and space. — Oliver Sacks

Sometimes I have the feeling that what takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience identical to what we never try, and yet we spend our lives in a process of choosing and rejecting and selecting, in drawing a line to separate these identical things and make of our story a unique story that we can remember and that can be recounted, either now or at the end of time, and this be erased or swept away, the annulment of everything we are and do. We pour all our intelligence and our feelings and our enthusiasm into the task of discriminating between things that will all be made equal, if they haven't already been, and that's why we're so full of regrets and lost opportunities, of confirmations and reaffirmations and opportunities grasped, when the truth is that nothing is affirmed and everything is constantly in the process of being lost. — Javier Marias

My life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so of course I want to stay as long as I can. — David Beckham

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it's got bipartisan support. — Erik Paulsen

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. — Arthur Capper

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living. — Patti Smith

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure. — Joshua Waitzkin