Diakosmhtika Quotes & Sayings

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution. — Ron Paul

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable. — Indira Gandhi

Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway. — Maya Angelou

There is a perfect rout of characters in every man - and every man is like an actor's trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things — Wallace Stevens

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.' — Zaha Hadid

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets. — Patti Smith

I love you madly," she said. "I shall make you happy if I have to kill somebody to do it. But that ought not to be necessary. — Loretta Chase

Magic must have meaning to hold power. You must believe in your
magic or it is useless. Focus is the key. Focus your mind and your spirit.
You must have a strong will to do what you must. Doubt causes weakness.
Weakness causes doubt. Fear cripples us. Believe in your power and you
will become powerful. — Cynthia Stacey

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate — Isaac Asimov

MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Museum leadership. It is my distinct pleasure to work with such a talented and highly qualified group. I salute Bob Menschel for the high bar he has set and follow him in the position of Chairman with all the respect he has earned. — Jerry Speyer

Forgiveness, I finally decide, is not the death of amnesia, nor is it a form of madness, as Derrida claims. For the one who forgives, it is simply a death, a dying down in the heart, the position of the already dead. It is in the end the living through, the understanding that this has happened, is happening, happens. Period. It is a feeling of nothingness that cannot be communicated to another, an absence, a bottomless vacancy held by the living, beyond all that is hatred or love. — Claudia Rankine

Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. Very fast. The — Rick Riordan

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years. — Gene Tierney

At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead. — Jeff VanderMeer