Dibona Scamardella Quotes & Sayings

I need a free hand for slapping you when you act stupid. — Rick Riordan

I don't want to die, Arlen, but I would lay down my life for any of these men, or they for me. That's a real thing, sacrifice, but you will never understand it. — Erika Johansen

I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today. — Robert McNamara

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on. — J.H. Wyman

It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves ... To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save. — Simone Weil

He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God. — Thomas Watson