Ditas Beloit Quotes & Sayings

Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not. — Patrick Leahy

As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must be connected to God individually so that you all are connected among yourselves. I have been saying this again and again and again because at the Sahasrara you are being blessed with this collective spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you. — Julia Child

Nothing is stranger, more delicate, than the relationship between people who know each other only by sight - who encounter and observe each other daily, even hourly, and yet are compelled by the constraint of convention or by their own temperament to keep up the pretense of being indifferent strangers, neither greeting nor speaking to each other. Between them is uneasiness and overstimulated curiosity, the nervous excitement of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need to know and to communicate; and above all, too, a kind of strained respect. For man loves and respects his fellow man for as long as he is not yet in a position to evaluate him, and desire is born of defective knowledge. It — Thomas Mann

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness. — Pope Francis

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake."
"A habit. — Orson Scott Card

The investments we make in ourselves will always deliver the most profitable returns. — Sumner Davenport

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed. — Louise Penny

Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

And it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. — Colum McCann

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries, fattened at the taxpayers' expense. — H.L. Mencken

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. — Ambrose Bierce

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality. — Jane Jacobs

After all, memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage. — Michelle Moran

Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks VapoRub for the national charley horse, it's clear that his hands were reaching for any hands but mine. — Natalie Angier