Donnent Quotes & Sayings

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. — John Masefield

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident ... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me. — Elizabeth Edwards

The imagination is not a faculty for the creation of illusion; it is the faculty by which alone man apprehends reality. The 'illusion' turns out to be truth. — Harold Clarke Goddard

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air. — Jane Horrocks

The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, 'We want peace. We want peace.' — Jarreth J. Merz

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech. — George Jessel

I write in my books what I like to read, I write in my articles what I like to change, and I post on my pages what brings a smile to my friends' faces.
~Ica Iova~ — Ica Iova

Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement. — Tony Robbins

Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit to your characters, but know instead how to put them in situations which will make them witty. — Denis Diderot

Failure is transient but giving up is permanent. — Debasish Mridha

Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us, but just lacked the tools and techniques to succeed. We invest our ancestors with our own predelictions in what seem to us primitive and unevolved forms. As an example of all this, we take it for granted that our religions represent humanity's ultimate and highest spiritual development and expect to find among our ancestors only crude, fumbling harbingers of these religions. We certainly don't expect to find robust, fully developed religions whose expressions are entirely different from ours. — Daniel Quinn

The Bush administration actually started out with an open mind towards Iran, by all indications. In fact, early in the administration, the White House tasked the various agencies of government to do an inter-agency review of Iran policy, as it did with Iraq policy and most of the big areas of the world. — Elaine Sciolino

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. — Rita Mae Brown

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. — Chanakya

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. — Charlotte Gainsbourg