Durbeyfields Quotes & Sayings

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it. — Tony Burgess

Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit - the cosmos? — John Muir

You can't swing a cat in Ireland without hitting a saint. — Ryan Hackney

You can never win resentment with an argument - only love can do that. — Debasish Mridha

I picked up the phone, 'Hello?'
'Merry Christmas!' said Mom and Dad.
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'I love you too' I replied. I hung up the phone. My students were gaping at me. Two girls in the back row brushed away tears and hugged each other. Parents and children rarely said those three words in China. They knew their parents loved them, but they knew from their actions, not because they had ever been told. The students had studied and heard about the importance of family at Christmas, but with that telephone call they saw it for themselves. — Aminta Arrington

The role of the hero was filled, surprisingly, by the most frightening of untested forces in the market - the mutual funds. — John Brooks

Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms. — Duncan Long

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic. — Christopher Gorham

I accept that keeping in shape doesn't come naturally, so I work hard. I hit the gym every day: Pilates, yoga, weights. I used to love wine but I've stopped drinking. I quit smoking and I'll never start again. — Linda Evangelista

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this. — Catherine Keener

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. — Marlene Dietrich

I think most people are afraid to love because they want the freedom to suffer alone. — Peter Tieryas

Vronsky meanwhile, despite the full realization of what he had desired for so long, was not fully happy. He soon felt that the realization of his desire had given him only a grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is in the realization of desires. — Leo Tolstoy

As Pragmatic Programmers, our base material isn't wood or iron, it's knowledge. We gather requirements as knowledge, and then express that knowledge in our designs, implementations, tests, and documents. — Andrew Hunt