Dueceira Quotes & Sayings

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live. — Donald Kagan

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. — Robert Smithson

Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the
benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be at the mercy of
monsters. It is about time that we understood that the U.S. government does
more to endanger the American people than any imagined monsters around the
world ... by pursuing its Grand Foreign Policy of meddling anywhere and
everywhere. — Sheldon Richman

Asininity was puddling all around me in quantities too vast to soak up. - It Looked Different on the Model — Laurie Notaro

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else. — Theodore Bikel

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view. — Michael Arad

There's nothing you can say, child," Sora said. "You are stronger for it, the things you have suffered through. But what will you leave in your wake? I see wounds that will not heal, wherever you go. — Charles Hash

As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other: do I have to swallow it? — Edward St. Aubyn

It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner's work; it doesn't advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed. — Vincent Van Gogh

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way. — Valerie June

Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun? — Rose Fyleman

Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained space where feedback from the environment allows the emergence of natural self-regulation. — James E. Lovelock

Silence, her mother liked to say, could heal you or it could make you go crazy. It all depended on how you listened to it. — Jeff Giles

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. — Erma Bombeck