Ditiupnya Quotes & Sayings

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
The Fruit Hunters — Thomas Jefferson

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. — Franz Liszt

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all. — Dan Barker

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves ... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices! ... — Carlo Collodi

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity. — Ambrose Bierce

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture. — Learned Hand

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires. — Ayn Rand

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film. — John Lasseter

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note. — Igor Stravinsky

Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump. — Ruth Downie

She looked up at the whirling effulgent cloud, and thought, I brought down the fire from heaven; I have lived with glory. A thunderbolt struck from the sky and all was gone. — Mary Renault

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life. — Samuel Butler

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it. — John Wayne

Oh, Stephen, Stephen, get used to the world -- it's a horrible place full of horrible people, but it's all there is, and we live in it, don't we? So we've just got to do as the world does, my Stephen. — Radclyffe Hall