Djuana Dubois Quotes & Sayings

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty. — Epictetus

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

People are afraid of anybody who is different: It makes them worry everyone else is different too, and just pretending to be all the same. James — Cassandra Clare

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. — Ingrid Newkirk

In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religions counts for so much- except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - I believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl , or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey, — Jim Corbett

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law. — Marvin Ammori

It is hard for me to believe that Miss Groby ever saw any work of literature from far enough away to know what it meant. She was forever climbing up the margins of books and crawling between their lines for the little gold of phrase, making marks with a pencil. As Palamides hunted the Questing Beast, she hunted the Figure of Speech. She hunted it through the clangorous halls of Shakespeare and through the green forests of Scott. — James Thurber

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them. — James Branch Cabell

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud. — Eugene Ormandy