Diehl Whittaker Quotes & Sayings

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it. — Lysander Spooner

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs. — Don McLean

By the time Bill Clinton left office in 2001, an Operation Other Than War, as Pentagon forces called them, could go on indefinitely, sort of on autopilot - without real political costs or consequences, or much civilian notice. We'd gotten used to it.
By 2001, the ability of a president to start and wage military operations without (or even in spite of) Congress was established precedent. — Rachel Maddow

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology. — Jay Chiat

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question." — Mickey Rourke

I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things. — Zhuangzi

My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom was a great cook, and they have great recipes, and whenever her mom would come into town, we would have all these friends just randomly showing up at our house, and eventually we figured out why. They wanted Mama's cooking. — Bill Rancic

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time doesn't matter. If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward. — Benjamin Carson

It seemed to Don Jaime that you could find in the memory of every man the bittersweet shadow of a woman. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

Guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace of the syllables so as to bring them, despite their difference of quantity, into a uniform rhythm, and breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling. — Marcel Proust

If by fawning, you mean he's a deer, I have a gun, and it's hunting season, then I guess you're right. — Sage Kafsky

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them. — Jonathan Franzen

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. — Jean Kerr

Six a.m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it! — Alice Henderson