Dexerity Quotes & Sayings

The language he used was that of a man who was sick and tired of the world he lived in - though he had much liking for his fellow men - and had resolved, for his part, to have no truck with injustice and compromises with the truth. — Albert Camus

her words filled John with a bittersweet — Mona Prevel

Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. — T. Boone Pickens

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks. — Ann Voskamp

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed. — Benjamin Franklin

In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches — David Coleman

Every one of us will go through things that destroy our inner compass and pull meaning out from under us. Everyone who does not die young will go through some sort of spiritual crisis, where we have lost our sense of what is right and wrong, possible and impossible, real and not real. Never underestimate how frightening, angering, confusing, devastating it is to be in that place. Making meaning of what is meaningless is hard work. Soul-searching is painful. This process of making or finding meaning at the end of life is what the chaplain facilitates. — Kerry Egan

Do not compromise on national security for purely budgetary reasons. The world is dangerous, and we must always be prepared for anything that might threaten our national interests and security. — Sanford Bishop

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth. — Robert Jastrow

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing. — Truman Capote

I don't feel comfortable taking some random stuff," I said. "Especially stuff that's called Stuff. — Stefan Mohamed

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits ... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them ... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still. — David Cobley

India, the new myth
a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. — Salman Rushdie