Ducat Quotes & Sayings

Here is the secret to subtraction. It doesn't matter what you remove. What matters is that you stop adding it back. — Erin Loechner

The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain. — Ahmed Mostafa

I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition. — Abbas Kiarostami

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The usual touchstone of whether what someone asserts is mere persuasion or at least a subjective conviction, i.e., firm belief, is betting. Often someone pronounces his propositions with such confident and inflexible defiance that he seems to have entirely laid aside all concern for error. A bet disconcerts him. Sometimes he reveals that he is persuaded enough for one ducat but not for ten. For he would happily bet one, but at ten he suddenly becomes aware of what he had not previously noticed, namely that it is quite possible that he has erred. — Immanuel Kant

I am 'sort of' haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world. — Henry James

The fact that he might have other things to do with his time than spend it shepherding his master's head-strong, thousand-ducat-a-night anguisette through one of the most unsavory quarters of the City never crossed my mind. — Jacqueline Carey

Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean — Wasif Ali Wasif

[A historian] will more seriously deplore the loss of the Byzantine libraries, which were destroyed or scattered in the general confusion: one hundred and twenty thousand manuscripts are said to have disappeared; ten volumes might be purchased for a single ducat; and the same ignominious price, too high perhaps for a shelf of theology, included the whole works of Aristotle and Homer, the noblest productions of the sciences and literature of ancient Greece. — Edward Gibbon

As you give yourself wholeheartedly to me, I am able to give back to you with greater abundance. Do not be a miser with your spirit. Commit to me. Spend energy on me and I will reward you with a life beyond your dreams. — Julia Cameron

SILENCE you miserable cretins! — Nikolas Schreck

To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defence in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it. If he does believe, then the enthusiasm of faith is not a defence, no, it is the assault and the victory; a believer is a victor. — Soren Kierkegaard

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door. — Howard Thurman

Evaluate yourself and your calling worthily enough and be proud of it — Sunday Adelaja

The amount of demand you lay on increase, the more of it you get — Sunday Adelaja

I'll go get the horse and buggy," you'll say. And I'll say, "But I thought we were taking the hovercraft? — David Levithan

I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner. — Josh Turner

Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet. — William Poundstone