Donnish Quotes & Sayings

Don't give up before you even try. — Lilly Singh

A hair divides what is false and true. — Omar Khayyam

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue. — Faith Hill

No one can take the shot for you. — Lorii Myers

I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys. — La'el Collins

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one. — William P. Young

always be ready to help another in need — Holly Blackstone

As long as I feel the love of the game and my health is good, I'm going to play. I don't want to be one of these guys who stays too long or regrets leaving early. Football has been great to me. — Justin Tuck

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin ... — Frederick Douglass

It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important - a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other attributes. He is effective precisely because he is so determined, industrious, personal and even humourless, particularly in dealing with Congress. ( ... ) Kennedy had a detached and even donnish willingness to grant a merit in the other fellow's argument. Johnson is not so inclined to retreat and grants nothing in an argument, not even equal time. Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately. This may not be the most attractive quality of the new administration but it works. The lovers of style are not too happy with the new administration, but the lovers of substance are not complaining. — Robert A. Caro

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life. — Sylvia Earle

Thoughts have no sex. — Clare Boothe Luce

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham. — Sadat X