Doobtay Quotes & Sayings

If we are to have intense pleasures, we must also be liable to intense pains. — Alan W. Watts

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference? — Frank Luntz

The differences were plain enough, and yet I saw that they were as nothing compared with what we had in common. As I lay in bed at night, the sky outside my window reflecting the city's dim glow, I thought about Abuelita's fierce loyalty to blood. But what really binds people as family? The way they shore themselves up with stories; the way siblings can feud bitterly but still come through for each other; how an untimely death, a child gone before a parent, shakes the very foundations; how the weaker ones, the ones with invisible wounds, are sheltered; how a constant din is medicine against loneliness; and how celebrating the same occasions year after year steels us to the changes they herald. And always food at the center of it all. — Sonia Sotomayor

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. — Samuel Johnson

It's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody ... I don't know what happened. I can't explain it all. Just look around at the world. Look at this country. Things just aren't like they used to be.'
'Son, things have never been like what you think they used to be. — Sherman Alexie

America is a lunatic asylum. — Ezra Pound

The real beloved is your beginning and your end.
When you find that one,
you'll no longer expect anything else — Rumi

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to. — Joe Slovo

Slavery all day,
and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom! — Margarita Engle

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour. — Vartan Gregorian

In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine,' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce. — Joel Robuchon

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later. — Philip Roth

Send anyone you want, but don't send anyone you want back. — Chael Sonnen