Ditramat Quotes & Sayings

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists. — Larry King

Free speech is not the cause of the tensions that are growing around us, but the only possible solution to them. — Roger Scruton

Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But you realize that, one day, the flowers will wither and fade. — Frederick Lenz

Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole man, by far the most important is the acquisition of friendship. — Epicurus

I don't give up on people, even when they give up on me. — Mark Andrew Poe

The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself. — Walter Lippmann

John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation. — Stephen Colbert

My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time. — Gerard Houllier

Somewhere under the heavy burden of water going nowhere, under the silence, the old rocks of the river channel waited for the promised resurrection. Promised by whom? Promised by Capt. Joseph "Seldom Seen" Smith; by Sgt. George Washington Hayduke; by Dr. Sarvis and Ms. Bonnie Abbzug, that's whom. But — Edward Abbey

Instead of practicing philoxenos, which means loving the stranger, we find many times that the church is xenophobic. We forget that Jesus, whom we claim to follow, was the ultimate lover of otherness in people. Even differences in religion didn't freak Jesus out when it came to loving people. — Holly Sprink