Diletto Self Quotes & Sayings

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand. — Maira Kalman

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion. — Carol Plum-Ucci

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. — Louis L'Amour

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being. — Dalai Lama

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] — Dante Alighieri

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you. — Raha Moharrak

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination. — John F. Kerry

Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend — Cormac McCarthy

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter. — Jonah Goldberg

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. — Simone De Beauvoir

I felt that I was burning underwater. — Regina O'Melveny

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong. — Brett Ratner