Durmamos Quotes & Sayings

You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists - because they represent the people, of course (scoff). Federal judges have tenure as well - no federal judge has ever successfully been removed. And then there's the college professors. Me. How do you like that? — Ira Carmen

The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art. — Michael Dorris

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons. — Vance Havner

The key to the fast break is every one running hard for their teammates. — Paul Westhead

But it is possible to let go of this addiction. Consciousness is power. Once we are aware of ourselves as a separate Presence from our thoughts, we can then witness them and perhaps notice the addictive quality of thinking. — Arielle Hecht

Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens. — Virginia Woolf

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus. — Denise Levertov