Diems Army Quotes & Sayings

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten. — Neil Cavuto

What is desecration?" He spit again, eying him and Solomon realized he had tobacco in his lower lip. "You like playin with the dead, son?" "No sir," Solomon said. "Not at all." "Well you is. — Lucian Bane

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize. — Colm Toibin

This all seemed quaint and amusing, but as the book moved through to the modern day, nothing changed. People still fell to the influence of persuasion techniques, especially when they broadcast information about themselves that allowed identification of their personality type
their true name, basically
and the attack vectors for these techniques were primarily aural and visual. But no one thought of this as magic. It was just falling for a good line or being distracted or clever marketing. Even the words were the same. People still got fascinated and charmed, spellbound and amazed, they forgot themselves, and were carried away. They just didn't think there was anything magical about that anymore. — Max Barry

Moreover, they who returned, if any, would be flogged, as seemed proper, after due examination. And though the news of their beatings might help all others to hesitation, ere they did foolishly, in like fashion, yet was the principle of the flogging not on this base, which would be both improper and unjust; but only that the one in question be corrected to the best advantage for his own well-being; for it is not meet that any principle of correction should shape to the making of human signposts of pain for the benefit of others; for in verity, this were to make one pay the cost of many's learning; and each should owe to pay only so much as shall suffice for the teaching of his own body and spirit. And if others profit thereby, this is but accident, however helpful. And this is wisdom, and denoteth now that a sound Principle shall prevent Practice from becoming monstrous. — William Hope Hodgson

No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. — Chrissie Hynde

What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place? — Richelle E. Goodrich

I have Twitter auto-post to my Facebook page, and I occasionally post things directly to Facebook as well. I've always noticed that the direct-to-Facebook approach generates far more likes, but I've never actually gone back and run the averages. — Michael Arrington

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it. — Jay Samit

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children. — Alan Dershowitz

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say. — Josh Turner

When you travel like I did, vague about destination and with an open-ended itinerary, a holy-seeming openness takes over your character. It's the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that. — Pharrell Williams