Dikter Quotes & Sayings

You can't be wise and in love at the same time. — Bob Dylan

One who is allowed to sin, sins less — Tacitus

What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it. — Rob Lowe

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another. — Walter Lang

To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundred years ago they sold bark in our streets peeled from our own woods. In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. Ah! already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar and turpentine. — Henry David Thoreau

If we are to transition to a new economy and to lead it, we must start by transforming our schools. — Tom Vilsack

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
...When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now! — Thomas F. Healy

The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down. — Michel Gondry

I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed. — Richard C. Armitage

He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment. — Oliver Sacks

What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus? — Virgil

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. — John Bunyan

God, I love John Cassavetes. — Angela Sarafyan

Sex as you like it is an animal right -- no mere civil liberty. Defend it with your beak and claw. — Irving Rosenthal

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing. — Elie Wiesel