Duenes Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want to argue with my hosts. I wanted them to talk. But I felt like reminding Li that perhaps forty million Chinese people had died of starvation a half century earlier because they followed their government's orders. It was the largest famine in history. A snapshot taken then would have given a very different picture of the supposedly essential character of Chinese people, and it would have entirely missed the point. Governments matter. Markets matter. History matters. International circumstances matter. — Howard W. French

Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead. — Ted Nugent

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again. — Annie Baker

The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair. — Philip Zaleski

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. — Mencius

I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I had kept opaque
Down deeper than the canyons undersea
The sullen spectrum of a buried lake
Nobody saw; not seen even by me ... — Allen Tate

Wisdom is an artful method - a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge. — Gregory Koukl

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine. — Tori Amos

As always when I was in trouble, I looked down at Tuesday. I could see his concern, but also his confidence in me. There was something about his eyes, when he looked at me, that always said, I believe in you, Luis. — Luis Carlos Montalvan