Dorwin Douglass Quotes & Sayings

Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battlefield in France and rode home in a ship that crawled across the ocean slowly so he could catch his breath. I get on a plane in hell and get off, hours later, at home. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Where do songs go when you cease to hear them? Where does the turbulence of the air disappear after thousands of birds flap their wings homeward at eventide? Where are the cries of the Rajput women who spatter their red palm prints on the wall and leap into the flames of johar? Where is my childhood, my catapult, my broken slate, my first parrot, my youth and first sin and all those that followed, where is my old age and the first time I saw the woman from Merta? Ask Gambhiree. She knows it all. — Kiran Nagarkar

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems. — Sergei Lavrov

If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big. — Jeb Hensarling

[Love] has as few problems as a motocar. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road. — Franz Kafka

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality. — Auliq Ice

The air stilled, suspended with unspoken words, heavy thoughts, and two people who couldn't look away from one another. — Jenny B. Jones

A headsman's sword is no fit end for brave Ser Gregor. We have prayed so long for his death, it is only fair that he pray for it as well. — George R R Martin

Satan wants to claim our souls and those of our children. He want our marriages and our families to fail. He wants darkness to reign. Despite thise, we needn't worry or back away from our duty to our family (present or future), our community, or others, for God will always support and bless us in our honest efforts t odo His will. He wants us to suceed more than Satan wants us to fail- and God is always more powerful. — John H. Groberg

It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be. It was there that I learned it is blessed to receive, as well as that every human being, no matter how base, is worthy of my respect and even my envy because he knows something that I may never be old or wise or kind or tender enough to know. — M.F.K. Fisher

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. — Archibald Primrose

Worse is man who abandons himself — Amit Gupta