Dritan Dajti Quotes & Sayings

And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal? — Felix Mendelssohn

That's how a doctor earns money, she told me. It's a war with insurance, every step of the way. — Atul Gawande

Crawford was home for a month from the hospital, the chest pains came again in the night. Instead of calling an ambulance and going through it all again, he chose simply to roll over to the solace of his late wife's side of the bed. — Thomas Harris

I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece. Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well. I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I'd known of him because I'm from Europe. I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great. I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real. — Peter Gallagher

It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music. — May Sarton

I am doing the best I can. I am hoping I am good enough. I am holding you close, as close as I can, hand cradling your head and breath on your hair, my whole body curved around yours, sheltering you as best I can, trying to remember that I cannot keep you safe, but I can keep you loved. — S. Bear Bergman

Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I'd like to see every news organization, large and small, newspaper and blog, sponsor FOIA clubs in their communities to get scores, hundreds, thousands of citizens helping to open up data. — Jeff Jarvis

How many boxs of Fruit Loops do you need to smash to be considered a cereal killer? — Neil Leckman

Conformity - the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain

In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work. — Ed Wood

the knowledge, tastes, and social accomplishments of 13-year-olds are often the same as those of 28-year-olds. Adolescents are precociously adult; adults are permanently adolescent. — Theodore Dalrymple