Diekert Quotes & Sayings

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family. — Warren Littlefield

I've come to believe the baggage I'll tote to my death will determine its quality. I've learned the importance of doing simple things---telling my family and friends I love them; expressing gratitude for even the smallest kindnesses shown to me; being accepting of the unskillful words and actions of others; and asking for forgiveness when I screw up. — Stan Goldberg

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier. — Seth Gabel

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention — Lee Harvey Oswald

This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. [pause]But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.. — Virginia Woolf

A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else. — Stan Beckensall

All four majors are definitely a priority. — Karrie Webb

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. — Walter Dean Myers

He looked like some primitive golden god hunted to death. — Laurell K. Hamilton

charged the dikes at Domburg, and spindrift — David Mitchell

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient. — Nick Harkaway

I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system. — Marco Rubio

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. — Jean De La Fontaine

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable. — S.M. Stirling

If you are unable to admit your mistakes, you cannot expect others to forgive them. Be honest and sincere, there is no shame in that. — Shelley K. Wall