Diezmais Quotes & Sayings

If there is such a thing as a universal
and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window
it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite. — Clare Vanderpool

The human tongue is a beast that few can master. — Robert Greene

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch
engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. — Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole. — John Irving

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich. — Robert Kiyosaki

At my first job in the mid-to-late '90s, almost every product was from Microsoft. Everything was designed to work together - Windows for workgroups, shared M drives, etc., etc. — Stewart Butterfield

Now that we've entered the wave of extinction let's sing while we still can ... Quick, climb onto my back and cry wreck it wreck it like a frog in the grip of ecstatic amplexus — Lucia Perillo

There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books. — G.K. Chesterton

I don't want to have my children have to get dressed up to go out to say good morning and deserve to live among some other people. I want to be able to be free and take for granted that my neighbors like me and I like them. — Ruby Dee

You dare laugh at the fall of Suyodhana and all the noble men like Bhishma, my father, Karna, and the others who fought for him? Read Jaya to know how Karna rejected the temptation to become Emperor and instead chose to stand by the man who had given him everything when he had nothing. Read how Karna was trapped by own nobility, how impossible promises were extracted from him; know how he was shot while extracting the wheel of his chariot that was stuck in the mud. Know that Arjuna did not keep his word, as any honourable warrior would have done, when he failed to kill Jayadratha before sunset, hiding behind the lame excuse that the sunset had been maya, an illusion created by an avatar. Sleep in your beds peacefully by all means, if your conscience still allows you to do so, you lucky devils. — Anand Neelakantan

No man who merely skims the book of God can profit thereby; we must dig and mine until we obtain the hid treasure. The door of the word only opens to the key of diligence. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs. — Adrian Tomine

I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some. — Ayelet Waldman

He that hopes not for good, feares not evill. — George Herbert