Diakarlo Quotes & Sayings

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers. — George Bernard Shaw

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct. — Leonard Mlodinow

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make? — Germaine Greer

It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical literary masterpieces of the past, and there is no shortage of people who believe that what little they're required to learn in school is still too much. — Terry Teachout

After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid - other times they were so confounding, complex, and exquisite that he was convinced humans really were as special as they thought themselves to be. — Kim White

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again. — Kevin O'Leary

Today we can be sure we are heading into the right direction. We managed to put the round back on track, after a long hibernation. But we are not there yet. — Pascal Lamy

Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am ... only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths. — Ernesto Che Guevara

Violence begins when imagination fails. — Stephen Evans

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. — Erica Jong

Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh ... And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion. — Dan Brown

Just because you worked hard on something didn't make it worth doing. — Laura Lippman

As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated. — John Evelyn