Dhelia Gabriel Quotes & Sayings

Movie makers now choose profit over vision. — Shirley Maclaine

I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. — Sam Walton

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government. — Alexander Bickel

Contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult. He is contemptible in that his judgments reflect a vision of himself which in his ignorance and pride he would impose upon the world. — John Edward Williams

Well!' I said. 'And suppose I had come round after?'
'I like you more better now,' said she. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides

She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want. — Richard Stark

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it. — Ralph Boston

Before kids can play like a pro, they must enjoy playing the game like a kid. — Steve Locker

The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with the language an altered perspective, for a group of phenomena that tradition tended to refer to with such words as 'spirituality', 'piety', 'morality', 'ethics' and 'asceticism'. If the manoeuvre succeeds, the conventional concept of religion, that ill-fated bugbear from the prop studios of modern Europe, will emerge from these investigations as the great loser. Certainly intellectual history has always resembled a refuge for malformed concepts - and after the following journey through the various stations, one will not only see through the concept of 'religion' in its failed design, a concept whose crookedness is second only to the hyper-bugbear that is 'culture'. — Peter Sloterdijk