Dewaine Robinson Quotes & Sayings

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. — Moses Ibn Ezra

I love reading another reader's list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful. — T. S. Eliot

But as soon as I had finished my course of study, at which time it is usual to be admitted to the ranks of the well educated, I completely changed my opinion, for I found myself bogged down in so many doubts and errors, that it seemed to me that having set out to become learned, I had derived no benefit from my studies, other than that of progressively revealing to myself how ignorant I was. — Rene Descartes

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name. — Candace Wheeler

I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways to say X thing, but one will say it better than the other two. And in saying it better, it gets you closer to something. — Claudia Rankine

All I want is for you to stand here and watch the people you love be horribly mutilated. Is that too much to ask? — Brenna Yovanoff

When teaching someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary, and more from the way the boundary is established. — Bryant McGill

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics. — John Foster Dulles

Life is like an echo! when you give something, it comes back to you many, many times. — Choa Kok Sui

And so, since then, I've been preaching. Moreover ... I love those who laugh at me even more than the rest. Why, I don't know ... but so be it. They say that even now I don't make much sense ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England. — E. M. Forster

We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep. — Hugh Howey

I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he ... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling. — Richard Pryor

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. — Clifton Fadiman