Dockendorff Quotes & Sayings

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever. — James Darren

The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak. — Edward Abbey

I was only trying to survive, she mumbled, as if it made any difference. It was no excuse to use against someone who had truly been trying to survive, and Damian had done so quite successfully since 1450. What right had she to say that it was hard? — Elaine White

One may be an excellent pianist, mathematician, gardener, or scientist and still be cranky and jealous, but in the West one can be considered a great moralist and yet not live by one's moral principles. We must simply recall here the Buddhist requirement that a person and his or her teachings be compatible. Ethics is not like any ordinary science. It must arise from the deepest understanding of human qualities, and such understanding comes only when one undertakes the journey of discovery personally. An ethic that is built exclusively on intellectual ideas and that is not buttressed at every point by virtue, genuine wisdom, and compassion has no solid foundation. — Matthieu Ricard

I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless. — William Morris Hunt

In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero's. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church. — Charles Williams

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. — James Otis

I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different. — Cynthia Kadohata

I wonder what kind of sound it would make if I were to smash this glass against the side of his head. — Colleen Hoover

You young people, you who think you invented fun and drugs, fuck you — Chuck Palahniuk