Dovicos Furniture Quotes & Sayings

I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I don't complain when Kant does it. Or when Aristotle introduces all kinds of new words; he needed them. But these other people [modern philosophers] are just obfuscating. It just makes me annoyed. — William H Gass

John-who-wasn't-gonna-get-none — J.R. Ward

I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. — Tammara Webber

Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity]. — Lew Wallace

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up. — Vin Scully

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care. — Kathleen Blanco

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy. — William Shakespeare

Simply, humans should not be given explosive toys (like atomic bombs, financial derivatives, or tools to create life). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
[Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do. — Jennifer Rowe

Our wyrds - our fates — Christopher Paolini

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice. — George MacDonald

-What do you hate most? he asks.
-A lie. And you?
-Ownership, he says. When you leave me, forget me. — Michael Ondaatje

How will it end? ... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin ... — Carl H. Claudy