Disessa Obituary Quotes & Sayings

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer. — James Hilton

You guys be safe," said Veek. She gave Nate a crooked smile. "Don't do anything too stupid, Shaggy." "Like going down into a hundred-year-old mine shaft?" "Yeah," she said. "That'd pretty much max out the stupid-meter. — Peter Clines

Poetry is that which is lost in translation. — Laurence J. Peter

Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead. — Evan Osnos

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Free agency changed the baseball landscape in many ways. It created more opportunities for players, but it also meant increasingly fewer players would spend an entire career playing for one franchise - and that's especially true for players capable of becoming "legends," the ones in such demand on the free agent market. — Tucker Elliot

I know too well how
good-bye can steal more than just the future. — Talia Vance

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar? — Alphonse De Lamartine

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what. — Jessie J.

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard

Du Bois didn't fully understand democracy. It seemed pointless to give people the right to self-determination when so few had any interest in it. Now that humanity had reached a certain level of comfort and people didn't really seem to want to think for themselves, he believed it was better that they just did what they were told. Then everyone would be happy. — Gavin G. Smith

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake. — June Jordan