Dietels Guy Quotes & Sayings

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story. — Fennel Hudson

It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private. — Robert Black

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible. — Mohamed Al-Fayed

In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived. — Shannon L. Alder

Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king. — Mary Renault

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes. — Guido Calabresi

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs. — Ann Landers

It was only then that I realized that poor Ms. Rubin's blouse and skirt were completely covered in my blood. — R.J. Palacio

He wondered if his own child would like to
have a dog, then shook off the thought. He was years
away from having a child. He needed a wife first - and
obtaining her would be far more trouble than obtaining
a mistress. Here, he had yet to get a mistress. — Lorraine Heath

You saw how he put his paws over my face so I couldn't breathe?" she said. "God made him to be a butcher. Why did he become a dentist? His hands are too heavy. The touch is everything to a dentist. If his hands aren't right he shouldn't be let practice. But his wife worked hard to send him through school and make a dentist of him. And I must go to him and be burned because of it. — Saul Bellow

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'. — Nelson Rockefeller