Dispatch Motivational Quotes & Sayings

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. — Moliere

On any given day, Ossifar Distana carried around 5000 passengers, the actual figure varying slightly depending on where she was on the vast elliptical cruise that took her around the Terran Empire. When she entered the system she carried 4984 passengers, 500 crew, one dead body and one very puzzled Captain. — Christina Engela

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm ... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity. — James Madison

To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game. — Amar'e Stoudemire

Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete. — Jean Rhys

The thought makes me reach back for my knife, my sharp, throat-cutting security blanket, as I look around. — Kendare Blake

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept. — Ram Dass

I never did try to make my daddy understand why I left for the army the way I did. I just thought, because he loved me, he should let it go, and if he couldn't, well then he didn't love me like I thought. Young folks get love and understandin' backward, don't they? Love don't come galloping across fresh pastures like a fine white horse with understandin' riding soft and easy on its back. Understandin' plods in like an old plow mule, breaking sod. It shades the earth with its body, and waters it with sweat. Love grows up in the furrow that's left behind. It takes some patience. I was an impatient young man. ~Claude Fisher — Lisa Wingate

I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me - and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it. — Wilkie Collins

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Was it two or one dead face? Would you notice that at last? We are together and alone, until the firm and angry blast. — J.M.K. Walkow

it runs afoul of what i call the birdshit rule. you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up — John Green

I prate of ancient poets' monstrous lies,
Ne'er seen or now or then by human eyes. — Ovid