Dobner Via Dante Quotes & Sayings

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one. — Jesse Jackson

That was it. She came out of it. She never had such a down as that or such an up as the three days that preceded it, not ever again in her life. The rest of her life was like a long thin line with little diminuendos and tiny little crescendos, and friends visiting from out of town. — Sheila Heti

Tenacity got me over the brick wall. — Randy Pausch

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time. — Daniel Keyes

My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves. — John Updike

In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the orchard, as doves and redwings came and went on the warm wind, the leaves dancing, the clouds flying ... the child was not observing; he was at rest in the very center of the universe, a part of things, unaware of endings and beginning, still in unison with the primordial nature of creation, letting all light and phenomena pour through. — Peter Matthiessen

We were peering into this darkness, crisscrossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing — Italo Calvino

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. — Kim Alexis

Did you ever notice if you promise the possible, people won't believe you? — Cameron Jace

Once I asked him what kind of women he liked. It was a stupid question, asked by an adolescent looking for something to say. But the Grub took it seriously and considered his reply for a long time. Finally he said, Calm women. And then he added, But only the dead are really calm. And after a while, Not even the dead, come to think of it. — Roberto Bolano

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive ... to survive. — Harry Chapin

Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves. — Rabindranath Tagore