Dimaya Decision Quotes & Sayings

My best advice for
you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work
like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll
make a wonderful life. — Doris Betts

His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile. — Laini Taylor

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy ... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people. — Morrie Schwartz.

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me. — Karl Rahner

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked. — Ambrose

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal. — Bill Cosby

I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for? — John McCain

Poor black families were "immersed in a domestic web of a large number of kin and friends whom they [could] count on," wrote the anthropologist Carol Stack in All Our Kin. Those entwined in such a web swapped goods and services on a daily basis. This did little to lift families out of poverty, but it was enough to keep them afloat. But large-scale social transformations - the crack epidemic, the rise of the black middle class, and the prison boom among them - had frayed the family safety net in poor communities. So had state policies like Aid to Families with Dependent Children that sought to limit "kin dependence" by giving mothers who lived alone or with unrelated roommates a larger stipend than those who lived with relatives. — Matthew Desmond

Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon. — John D. Rockefeller

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. — Pliny The Elder