Dieingly Quotes & Sayings

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity — Robert South

I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home. — Nick Harkaway

Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page. — Frank Harris

Virtue is the first title of nobility. — Moliere

The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty. — Mo Ibrahim

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them. — Steve Coogan

Everyone who lived here said those things: provincial, self-satisfied, boring. If you said that, it showed you recognized these qualities but did not partake of them yourself. — Margaret Atwood

Don't worry about it, Borage. I've always been inclined to think that the Apostle Paul was similarly afflicted. He speaks often of a bodily weakness, and men have been at pains to name it, attibuting to him everything from lameness to lung sickness. But I think the clue lies in his experience on the road to Damascus. Tell me, do you see a great light?
Dr. Trudgett — Norah Lofts

Because that's what happened to fury when tenderness was applied. It dissolved. — Julie Anne Long

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society. — Jacque Fresco

Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity — William Hunter

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice ... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God. — Jeffrey R. Holland