Dilettantes Define Quotes & Sayings

Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands ... 'Rights, as our founding fathers conceived them, are not claims to economic goods, but freedoms of action. — Ilana Mercer

We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makes of the pie ... Corporations make the pie. They make it and we eat it. — David Foster Wallace

We cannot keep the Good News to ourselves any longer! Time is running out! — Angus Buchan

What peace it must be to know that someone is yours, no matter what - it is ordained, can never be otherwise. — Ariel Levy

You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ. — Joshua Harris

Our career is not something that we go out and *find.* Your perfect career is something that emerges from deep within you. When you are aligned with the truth within yourself, then you magnetize people and circumstances which align with that truth. — Marianne Williamson

Failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman

You may have enslaved our bodies, but our hearts and minds will always be free! — Brian Jacques

You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future. — Jeremy Stephens

I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it. — Mark Mulder

Key West has become an imitation of its former self, its eccentricities commoditized for sale to tourists. That "character" you see with a parrot on his shoulder is about as authentic as vinyl siding, employed to provide local color. Gargantuan cruise ships dock two or three times a week, disgorging passengers by the thousands to troll the cheesy T-shirt shops on the main drag, Duval Street. And with all sorts of diversions to keep visitors occupied, like parasailing and jet skiing, tourist season is year-round, clogging the streets with autos, bikes, motor scooters, and pedestrians. I — Philip Caputo

It's about who walks into your life, says 'I'm here for you,' and then proves it. — Nicholas Sparks

Foreigners may be admitted to citizenship by naturalization, either collectively or individually. Collective naturalization may occur when a foreign territory and its inhabitants are transferred to the United States. — Charles A. Beard

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is. — Brad Thor

No house was so poor as not to have its 'family altar,' its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A religious atmosphere pervades Tibet and gives it a singular sense of novelty. — Isabella Bird