Distinon Quotes & Sayings

You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face — Ian Fleming

In the second photo I am thirty years old. My face has hardened. The jaws are accentuated. The mouth is bitter and mean. I look like a hoodlum in spite of my eyes, which have remained gentle. Their gentleness is almost indiscernible because of the fixity of gaze imposed upon me by the official photographer. By means of these two pictures I can see the violence that animated me at the time: from the age of sixteen to thirty. — Jean Genet

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy. — Robert Breault

Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation. — John Sexton

Blood shall always be answered with blood. — Amish Tripathi

There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life. — Naguib Mahfouz

The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky. — E. Urner Goodman

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. — Ann Dillard

I don't think I've shied away from anybody. I'm not scared. I respect hitters, but I'm not afraid. — Mark Prior

The libertarian good society lies ... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms. — Henry Calvert Simons

Kiss me back, Tenleigh," he whispered, his voice strained. "God, please kiss me back. — Mia Sheridan

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong. — Friedrich Schiller

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually. — Angelique Kidjo

Yes, something about the fabric of life ripping for a moment so you glimpsed things you shouldn't have seen. — Anne Rice

Once upon a time, there was a world. It had three types of people in it. Those who walked a path of fear. Those who walked a path of faith and those who were lost. There were two realities; one that was visible to the senses and the other visible to the soul. Those on a path of fear, would see all things worldly. Those on a path of faith would feel the beauty. Those who were lost were incapable of neither seeing or feeling. — Elise Icten