Dirks Quotes & Sayings

When conscience is immobilised, public trust has disappeared. At that point, by default, institutions become omnipotent. — Raymond Dirks

Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus. — Various

The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It's not all about fun. It's not always easy. — Leland Dirks

13 Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist. — Anonymous

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. — Lisa See

Religion suits everyone's needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists — Daya Kudari

It's the season. We share what we've got. — Leland Dirks

Besides," he said, clomping down the centuries-old stone steps, "she won't last that long. Once she sees all those sharp swords and dirks, and all that fighting and mayhem, she'll turn around and leave, realizing she really didn't want to stay her after all. — Terry Spear

I suppose it's the idea that there's one person out there for you. The so-called perfect match. It's not a logical concept. — Julie James

When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true. — Lisa Bonet

Her laughter changed her voice from wind chimes to the jingling of sleigh bells. — Leland Dirks

I do believe in the power of prayer. I do. And I believe in the power of human kindness. — Leland Dirks

If you are lucky, God will lead you to a situation you cannot control, you cannot fix, or you cannot even understand. At that point true spirituality begins. Up to that point is all just preparation."1 — Morris Dirks

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart. — Dirk Nowitzki

There's not really any kind of love that's 'bad.' All kinds of love teach us about ourselves and about each other. — Leland Dirks

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. — Hugo Black

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real. — Angelo Dirks

Micheil growled an oath and shoved through the crowd into the circle. "They're too young to take up fighting," he argued. "No one would accost them."

"Were those lads on the whisky wagon too young to be waving their dirks at brigands armed with claymores, then?"

That stopped Micheil in his tracks. He drew his weapon.

Donal grinned. "That's better. Let's dance, shall we? — Willa Blair

I hope you brought your handcuffs," she added. "I won't go quietly."
"I might use them anyway, for fun," he answered, remembering the sensation of her warm lips against his. — Roxanne Snopek

The sorcery is not confined to the story; it's matched by the magic of Austin's literary craftsmanship.
--Leland Dirks, author of Angelo's Journey — R.L. Austin

Because we need each other. We complete each other. Duty works both ways. Love needs a beloved. Loyalty needs two to be loyalty. Fidelity is nothing without someone to be faithful to. Every dog needs a human, and every human needs a dog. — Angelo Dirks

Hero love?" I was puzzled. "You know. The kind of love you have for someone you want to be like: Marines, astronauts, cowboys, teachers, big brothers, that sort of thing. You love them because they represent the you that you want to be. — Leland Dirks

You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you're trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is. — Angelo Dirks

I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited. — Hinton Rowan Helper

I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America. — Hinton Helper

There is no boundary between heaven and earth unless we believe in one. — Leland Dirks

Mine. It's all mine. — Angelo Dirks

I painted myself out of my painting. — Milton Resnick

Big love is the kind of love that takes in more than the self. It's love for something bigger than the self. It's love of God, of the universe, of the family, of the pack, of the tribe. It inspires courage and selflessness in those who know it. — Angelo Dirks

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. — Minna Antrim

For a writer, it seems a help rather than a hindrance to be at least a little crazy. Who but a crazy person would carve out a very private, quiet place in the world, only to pour his/her innermost thoughts and emotions onto a page for the entire world to examine? Even in fiction, we give a map to our most secret feelings. Why do writers do it? Perhaps because we'd be crazier still if we didn't. — Leland Dirks

You can't really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn't work because it can't love back. — Leland Dirks

Five friends I had and two of them snakes. — Frederick Buechner

Duty is doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons, without regard to the cost to one's self. — Angelo Dirks

Friendship love. This is a very special thing. It's the sort of love where you know another being's strengths and weaknesses, perfections and imperfections, and you love the whole package. — Angelo Dirks

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me. — Sean Connery

You ask me to forgive you? I'm thanking you. You finally loved me in that moment, and that love set me free, released me from my sworn duty. — Leland Dirks

Perhaps this is the supreme act of philosophy: not so much to think THE plane of immanence as to show that it is there, unthought in every plane, and to think it in this way as the outside and inside of thought, as the not-external outside and the not internal inside--that which cannot be thought and yet must be thought, which was thought once, as Christ was incarnated once, in order to show, that one time, the possibility of the impossible. — Gilles Deleuze