Douros Ilion Quotes & Sayings

Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. — Leigh Hunt

Was now the time to look forward to the doom of parting, and stop looking back at the doom of meeting? — Eudora Welty

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. — Hermann Hesse

Don't just make use of a gift, look inside you and maximize others — Sunday Adelaja

The monster is growing all the time. The numbers (of fighters) and the abilities at the Islamic State's disposal are great and mighty. This worries everyone, and everyone should be worried. — Hassan Nasrallah

There's a huge difference between doing what you love as a hobby and doing something professionally. But the biggest struggle is simply finding time to work. — Ryan McGinness

Washington read": the act of telling someone, "I didn't read your book but did praise it on TV.") — Mark Leibovich

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private. — Don DeLillo

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art. — Michel De Montaigne

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I'd love to have a family
sometime in the future. — Robert Pattinson

Whether you're talking about boners, infidelities, late rent, or the Democratic primary: a single plausible excuse will sound like a credible explanation while a basket full of excuses - even a basket stuffed with equally legitimate, plausible/probable excuses - will sound like a desperate/unbelievable lie. — Dan Savage

rather amazingly, an IAT developed for monkeys shows that they, too, exhibit implicit preferences for in-group members, associating good things like fruit with in-group members and bad things like spiders with out-group members. — Joshua Greene

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears. — Neil Peart