Doesend Quotes & Sayings

You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens. — Gordon B. Hinckley

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. — William Hazlitt

All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic and totalitarian regimes. It does not deform the truth; it inverts it. It routinely paints a picture for the outside world that is diametrically opposed to reality. And all of us reporters who have covered the occupied territories have run into Israel's Alice-in-Wonderland narratives, which we dutifully insert into our stories - required under the rules of American journalism - although we know they are untrue. — Chris Hedges

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life. — Elsa Maxwell

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Like Peter, you may want God's will but are unsure about how He is accomplishing it - and you prefer to manage life according to your terms. But, friend, it just doesn't work that way. So let go of your fear and allow the Savior to work. He has a better plan than you can imagine. Accept that He's in control, and rest in the knowledge that He's always victorious. — Charles F. Stanley

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being. — Bell Hooks

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. — J.K. Rowling

And let the fear and dread of you be upon all of the animals of the earth.45 Clearly, fear and dread were prescribed for the animals, but evidently it was forbidden among humans. By nature a human is superior to a brute animal, but not other humans. — Gregory The Great

This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me. — Sue Monk Kidd

You're 'wealthy' if you don't worry — Dennis Prager

His hair is huge! ... Look! ... It's just sticking up at odd angles! Like a demented porcupine! - Desmond, about Fletcher's hair — Derek Landy

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in. — Vinnie Jones

We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given. — Mark Nepo

If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes [of Eastern Europe] began instead to create a new system of state-controlled schools and mass organizations which would envelop their citizens from the moment of birth. Once inside this totalitarian system, it was assumed, the citizens of of the communist states would never want or be able to leave it. They were meant to become, in the sarcastic phrasing of an old Soviet dissident, members of the species Homo sovieticus, Soviet man. Not only would Homo Sovieticus never oppose communism; he could never even conceive of opposing communism. — Anne Applebaum