Driehaus College Quotes & Sayings

You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out. — Joan Bauer

We experience what life and death really are when we love, for in love we go out of ourselves, become capable of happiness and at the same time can be hurt. — Jurgen Moltmann

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created. — Philip Schultz

Books are written to take you places planes could never reach, so let your imagination soar. — R.L. Stoll

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. — E.L. Doctorow

The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions — Sigmund Freud

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society. — Cesare Beccaria

The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind. — Maria Montessori

What...the fuck... is the matter with you?" ...
What? ...
"I didn't do anything!" ...
"You put on that dress, didn't you?"...
"What?"...
"You... do not... leave your house... dressed like that... without being on the arm of a man like me," he ground out...
"A man like you?" I whispered back.
"A man who'd shoot another man in the face he even looked at you. Yeah, Anya, a man... like... me — Kristen Ashley

When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth. — George Nakashima

Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs. — Edward Kennedy