Dmodot Quotes & Sayings

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons. — Major Taylor

The Catholic Church then owed its popularity to the widespread popular skepticism which saw in the republic and in democracy the loss of all order, security, and political will. To many the hierarchic system of the Church seemed the only escape from chaos. Indeed, it was this, rather than any religious revivalism, which caused the clergy to be held in respect.39 As a matter of fact, the staunchest supporters of the Church at that period were the exponents of that so-called "cerebral" Catholicism, the "Catholics without faith," who were henceforth to dominate the entire monarchist and extreme nationalist movement. Without believing in their other-worldly basis, these "Catholics" clamored for more power to all authoritarian institutions. This, indeed, had been the line first laid down by Drumont and later endorsed by Maurras.40 — Hannah Arendt

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature. — Storm Jameson

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and ... their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice ... These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government. — Thomas Jefferson

Everything in the media is fleeting. Don't get the wrong idea. Fame is when you're still the hot topic next week or even the week after. — Miki Aihara

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do. — Prince Royce

If you can forget the person you love, you have not loved enough. — Anmol Rawat

Throwing your massive genitals into an argument is like throwing dynamite on a campfire. — Richard Jacob

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about. — John Cusack