Ditutor Quotes & Sayings

There is no prophecy in our day but history. But history is a trustworthy prophet. History is always repeating itself, because conditions are always repeating themselves. Out of duplicated conditions history always gets a duplicate product. — Mark Twain

The British and the Western Europeans in general, as well as the North Americans, waste the space of their homes with these rooms for ludicrously vast sleeping-machines
some with four pillars and a roof, some with iron fences at each end, topped with brass balls, and some with mahogany headboards whose function I have never yet understood. I would rather follow the Turkish proverb that "he who sleeps on the floor will not fall out of bed." In sum, I despise all furniture as monstrous, heavy, space-greedy, expensive, and pretentious. — Alan W. Watts

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population. — Hans Rosling

Men are the cause of women not loving one another.
[Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.] — Jean De La Bruyere

Tchotchka. Amorta. Heart of my heart. Speak to me. — Audrey Niffenegger

And that's what love does, it wipes out all the messy parts so you can see the picture clear. — Zetta Elliott

Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth.
Not the biased truth,
Not the liest truth,
But the highest truth. — Nas

I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray ... And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first. — Jim Abbott

If you draw the gun and don't shoot right. you're shot down! — Tapan Ghosh

Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain. — Ellen Forney

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. I shop, okay? — Danielle Fishel

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child. — Jet Li

Do not fear, only believe. — Anonymous

Solitude sometimes is best society. — John Milton