Dziegiel Quotes & Sayings

I didn't ask if you could read it,' he replies, still pleasant. 'Besides, words can lie. See beyond them. — Victoria Aveyard

No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability. It's certainly not a judgmental entity. It's certainly not paternalistic and all these qualities that have been attributed to God. — George Carlin

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary — Julian Barnes

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. — John Keegan

The disciples of Jesus were not to practice politics through the use of coercive power, but through servanthood. — Tim Otto

Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. — Gregory David Roberts

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong. — Theodore Roosevelt

I think that there's no question that, in Alberta as the price of oil continues to drop, that there are families ... that are worried about the instability that that brings to the economy. And so that has to be more and more front and centre in terms of the work that we do as a government. — Rachel Notley

Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself. — Marianne Williamson

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk. — Herodotus

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed. — Kenneth E. Boulding