Doidao Quotes & Sayings

If there's one thing I love, its people who wear their failures on their sleeve. And go on to teach the unspoken/spoken gospel of what not to do. And who still maintain that it CAN be done, and aren't going around preaching defeat to those who are still eager to try. — Njabulo P. Vilakazi

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat. — Bill Johnson

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer ... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. — Hunter S. Thompson

She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love. — Brandon Sanderson

As he left Yata's home that morning, he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams. For a moment he allowed himself to feel regret at the thought of never building a cottage by the river with Trevanion. Or living the life of a simple farmer connected to the earth. Or traveling his kingdom, satisfying the nomad he had become. To be Finnikin of the Rock and the Monts and the River and the Flatlands and the Forest. To be none of those at all.
Yet he also knew that to lose her to another man would be a slow torture every day for the rest of his life. — Melina Marchetta

The Trojan Horse Sterling had referred to reflected his belief that the truth about Jonestown had never been revealed to the American people. A belief shared by his fellow co-founders. They were certain that while there were undoubtedly suicides at Jonestown, the event could more accurately be described as a mass murder that resulted from an experiment of sorts carried out by various US agencies. — James Morcan

the perhaps rather prosaic truth that law is an imperfect yet indispensable vehicle by which both to conserve and transform society — Raymond Wacks

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma. — Swami Vivekananda

Here's a tip: you're cute when you're confident. And less when you're not. — John Green

I just wanted to sing on TV. — Sanjaya Malakar

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. — John Ruskin

Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap. — Trevor Horn

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit. — Joe Wright

When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers. — Phil Everly