Deziree Kemp Quotes & Sayings

A man is always in a hurry to be happy. — Alexandre Dumas

We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present. — Grace Lee Boggs

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge. — Bryant McGill

She has had no role in my life except to keep me sane, fed, housed, amused, and protected from unwanted telephone calls, also to restrain me fairly frequently from making a horse's ass of myself in public, to force me to attend to books and ideas from which she knows I will learn something; also to mend my wounds when I am misused by the world, to implant ideas in my head and stir the soil around them, to keep me from falling into a comfortable torpor, to agitate my sleeping hours with problems that I would not otherwise attend to; also to remind me constantly (not by precept but by example) how fortunate I have been to live for fifty-three years with a woman that bright, alert, charming, and supportive. — Wallace Stegner

Words have greater strength than fists. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives — Oren Lyons

her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of — Greg Iles

'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film. — Albert S. Ruddy

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? — Edgar Allan Poe

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. — H.L. Mencken

If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

He had rid my inherited house of a lustful ghost, opened my eyes to a concealed world of strange forces and arcane knowledge, and buggered me twice. — K.J. Charles

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is. — Elizabeth Edwards

Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary. — Alastair Reynolds