Dornumer Quotes & Sayings

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. — Mark Haddon

Is that all we have left? Is that all we are? Lights on a map that are slowly dying, hanging on for nothing? — Carrie Ryan

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. — Ambrose Bierce

Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed. — Peter F. Hamilton

The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment. — Mohammed Morsi

Love that endures, from life that disappears! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The constant winds of petty appetite dissipate the power of response. — George Sand

We shall denounce political trials, whether they are held in Washington or Warsaw. When a government puts a man in jail for his political opinions, we do not ask the nationality of that government. We are always on the side of the victim of State tyranny.
We hate war and have consistently fought against and for that reason we fight State oppression wherever it occurs. — Marie Louise Berneri

As citizens, we knew we had ceded some of our individual rights to society in order to live together as a community. But we did not believe this social contract included support for an immoral system. Since the people invested government with its authority, we understood that we had to obey the law. But when law became suppressive and tyrannical, when human law violated divine principles, we felt it was not only our right, but our duty to disobey. As Henry Thoreau strongly believed, to comply with an unjust system is to accept abuse. It is not the role of the citizen to follow the government down a path that violates his or her own conscience. — John Lewis

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you've always dreamed of, or still haven't had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way. — Sophia Amoruso

I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history. — Desmond Tutu