Dpko Chief Quotes & Sayings

And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man goes on concerned with this tree or that temple, with this harvest or that drinking-song, totally uncomprehended, totally untouched. And it watches from its splendid parochialism, possibly with a smile of amusement, motor-car civilization going its triumphant way, outstripping time, consuming space, seeing all and seeing nothing, roaring on at last to the capture of the solar system, only to find the sun cockney and the stars suburban. — G.K. Chesterton

Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax — Augusten Burroughs

From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing. — Sade Adu

Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, for the rest of our days till the end of our lives. — J. Lee Roberts

Let whoever opens a door make certain there are no enemies hiding behind it. — Miriam Minger

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. — Joan Armatrading

Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals is love. To survive and to celebrate, propagate and to love life. To be the best we can be - the right to be here and the responsibility to be the best dog or bear or horse that they can be. Humans have the tendency to self pity that other animals don't indulge in. — Matthew Fox

Remember ... this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas ... This is what climate change looks like in its early stages. — Bill McKibben

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I. — E. M. Forster

There is a difference between 'talking' and 'having a conversation'. When you talk you pass time but when you have a conversation, you create memories. — Saru Singhal