Dioguardi American Quotes & Sayings

Organs evolve to perform a particular function, but once they exist, they can be adapted for other usages as well. Mouths, for example, appeared because the earliest multicellular organisms needed a way to take nutrients into their bodies. We still use our mouths for that purpose, but we also use them to kiss, speak and, if we are Rambo, to pull the pins out of hand grenades. Are any of these uses unnatural simply because our worm-like ancestors 600 million years ago didn't do those things with their mouths? — Yuval Noah Harari

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself. — Pope Benedict XVI

I am not a brave man ... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above. — Andy Weir

War is sweet to those who have never fought. — Jess Rothenberg

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press. — Steve Jobs

I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do. — Eric Ripert

Justice is truth in action.

~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851 — Benjamin Disraeli

A beard well lathered is half shaven. — Oprah Winfrey

Linney moves in the world with such firm, certain steps, being with her can make you forget your own confusion, at least for a little while. — Marisa De Los Santos

Mr. Rushworth could be silent no longer. I do not say he is not gentleman-like, considering; but you should tell your father he is not above five feet eight, or he will be expecting a well-looking man. — Jane Austen

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful. — Elliott Abrams

When he saw the River again he knew it at once. He should have; it was now ineradicably a part of his past, his life; it would be a part of what he would bequeath, if that were in store for him. — William Faulkner

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you. — Richard Rohr