Dhour Quotes & Sayings

There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world. — Maya Angelou

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others. — Karen Maitland

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them. — Jude Morgan

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts. — Blaise Pascal

Situation is. The flight engineer points to the empty fuel gauge, and makes a throat-cutting gesture with his finger.* But he says nothing. Nor does anyone else for the next five minutes. There's radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries — Malcolm Gladwell

In my mind, Asperger's is a label to describe not the traits Jacob has but rather the ones he lost — Jodi Picoult

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate. — Winston Churchill

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. — Isabel Allende

I want him to tell me that he still loves me. That he can't imagine life without me, the way I can't imagine my life without him.
But he doesn't.
And he won't.
Because he's Finn.
And Finn doesn't need anybody.
And Finn doesn't beg. — R.S. Medina