Dictums Def Quotes & Sayings

Life is absolutely impossible without love. — Debasish Mridha

When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring? — George Erik Rupp

You're afraid of your own anger. — Kristin Cashore

Whenever you touch topaz, it touches you. It awakens a gentle fire, like wine awakens in grapes. Still unborn, clear wine seeks channels amidst stone, demands words, bestows its secret nourishment, shares out the kiss of human skin. The touch of stone and man in serene peace kindles garlands of fleeting flowers, which then return to prime sources: flesh and stone: contrary elements. (Translation, Beatriz von Eidlitz) — Pablo Neruda

At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat our lives were beautiful but precarious, their foundations vulnerable. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Serve others: The heart of the leader is manifested through service to others. — Artika R. Tyner

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened. — Neel Burton

The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook. — Karen Armstrong

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. — Mark Zuckerberg

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. — Neil Gaiman

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared. — Merlin Olsen

Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic positionThe operation in Gaza is not Netanyahu's strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu's strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision(that) once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it. — Jonathan Chait

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires. — J.I. Packer