Diekmann Paul Quotes & Sayings

Fear of boredom is the most scathing self-criticism. — Marty Rubin

We all do, kid. People have destructive impulses. Some of us want to see the world in ruins just for the fun of it ... even if we're ruined along with it. — Rick Riordan

I needn't be offended every time I have to look at you — Naomi Novik

Politicians are not born; they are excreted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you. — Michael Finkel

Jake's POV: Meanwhile, Ally was here with Marshall Moss, who she was obviously going to hook up with later. They'd barely stopped touching each other all night. Even now, they were out in the middle of the dance floor dancing to some Black Eyed Peas song. No reason to be touching for a fast song, but they were. Holding hands while they bounced around with friends.
She looked happy. Which made me want to punch someone. Preferably Marshall Moss. — Kieran Scott

No one would ever know it to look at me that as soon as I'm alone I am busy busy busy in the head. — Diana Joseph

Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and bondage. Whether we wish to or not, we are all drawing our own pictures in the lives we are living ... — Harriot Kezia Hunt

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself. — Mark Twain

I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image. — Samuel Beckett

It's intriguing to observe so many of the outrageous prophecies, made with such biting satire years ago in the first edition, come into being through the craft of so many self-entitled egomaniacs running a global 'corpornation' for personal interest and professional profit. I had no idea then, as I now know, that I was writing with so much understatement. Honest outrage and political satire are two of the most important weapons that we have to protect infringement against our personal freedoms through oligarchy and to maintain any semblance of humanity in our democracy as our government aggressively privatizes and over-reaches at the expense of those millions whom it has sworn so dishonestly to serve and has utterly abandoned. — David B. Lentz

If you don't like it, say something. — Joyce Rachelle

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For I am fighting for the old days, the old ways which I love so much, but which, I fear, are now gone forever, no matter how the die may fall. For, win or lose, we lose just the same. - Ashley Wilkes, Gone with the Wind — Margaret Mitchell

The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds. — Arleigh Burke