Dockstader Charitable Trust Quotes & Sayings

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. — Jean De La Bruyere

I'm sorry. I was just talking to the moon. — Ruth Ozeki

My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years. — Mario Lemieux

You were indeed called to be free, brothers and sisters. Don't turn this freedom into an excuse for your corrupt nature to express itself. Rather, serve each other through love. Galatians 5:13 — Dianne Neal Matthews

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect. — Melody Beattie

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? — Jeanette Winterson

Aim at the ground, you'll never miss. — Kristine Thomas

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. — David Byrne

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees, — Elie Wiesel

John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician He gained his livelihood I believe by teaching the mathematics to young people. He pursued science always with mathematical views. He seemed little attentive to the labours of men except when they countenanced or confirmed his own ideas ... He was a very disinterested man, seemed to have no ambition beyond that of being thought a good Philosopher. He was a very coarse Experimenter & almost always found the results he required. - Memory & observation were subordinate qualities in his mind. He followed with ardour analogies & inductions & however his claims to originality may admit of question I have no doubt that he was one of the most original philosophers of his time & one of the most ingenious. — Humphry Davy

There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and an au revoir! Alternately and ad infinitum. — John Berger

Prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came. — Barbara Kingsolver

Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project. — Ilana Mercer

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything. — Poppy Z. Brite

Whatever love laws have to be broken, the first few seconds suffice. After that everything is a matter of time and incident. — Amruta Patil