Dokeos Quotes & Sayings

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. — Herbert Spencer

The absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get. — Paul Young

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background. — Kristin Scott Thomas

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head. — Herschel Walker

Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness. — Dalai Lama

I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working. — Wiz Khalifa

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me. — Caroline Leavitt

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art. — Kalan Sherrard

It was a hateful memory, the sort of memory he would sometimes skirt the edges of by accident as he was falling asleep, his thoughts rolling close to it and then recoiling, burned. — Maggie Stiefvater

Spiritual ardency is the wellspring of a courageous heart. It gives us the strength to continue through all the difficulties of the journey. The question for us is how to practice and cultivate ardency, so that it becomes a powerful and onward-leading force in our lives. — Joseph Goldstein

Wars fought over a face like this. A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it, poison his brother to possess a face like this. My — Kristen Ashley

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Multiple allergies are perhaps the most obvious sign of immune system overreaction. Patients with CFIDS frequently have a past history of allergies, implying that their immune response is genetically primed for a vigorous response. Other patients with CFIDS develop allergic symptoms after the onset of their illness. CFIDS patients have a hair trigger for allergies. — David S. Bell