Dottavio Quotes & Sayings

It was a simple plan, but he was a simple man, and sometimes simple was good. — Dan Wells

Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts — Widad Akreyi

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers. — Jennifer E. Smith

Well, according to the new spirit of the age, in the case of a fourteen-year-old girl who got raped and has a child, her child has to learn "personal responsibility" by not accepting state welfare handouts, meaning, by not having enough to eat. Alright, I don't agree with that at any level. In fact, I think it's grotesque at any level. — Noam Chomsky

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper. — Bruce Pavitt

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. — Caroline Pratt

I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy. — Hualing Nieh Engle

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs. — Michelle Obama

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief. — Goswami Kriyananda

I told them a thousand times if I told them once:
Stop fooling around, I said, with straw and sticks;
They won't hold up; you're taking an awful chance.
Brick is the stuff to build with, solid bricks.
You want to be impractical, go ahead.
But just remember, I told them; wait and see.
You're making a big mistake. Awright, I said,
But when the wolf comes, don't come running to me.
The funny thing is, they didn't. There they sat,
One in his crummy yellow shack, and one
Under his roof of twigs, and the wolf ate
Them, hair and hide. Well, what is done is done.
But I'd been willing to help them, all along,
If only they'd once admitted they were wrong. — Sarah Henderson Hay

Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody tyrant." In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled within the family and those who intervened in the name of some grand theory of international justice were doing so to protect their own selfish interests and to maintain Arab subordination to the west. — Samuel P. Huntington

I don't know exactly what drove me to stray, but I think there's a certain sadness to finally getting what you want. — Jessica Pan

Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it — Richard Wright

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5 — Erich Maria Remarque

What dark corner of the soul did you crawl out of? — Jerry O'Connell