Egidia Douglas Quotes & Sayings

Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral consciousness and the arts of civilization? It is a mystery indeed.
The most obvious explanation is that the creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as contrasted to the ideal) gods of our society - the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success, and exploitative power. These are the "idols" of our society that are worshiped by multitudes of people. — Rollo May

Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech, — Marissa Mayer

It tasted like one of those herbal concoctions that health-food enthusiasts substitute for tea. — Aldous Huxley

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream — Alfred De Musset

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. — Henry Ford

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.' — Tom DeLonge

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well. — Barbara Kingsolver

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. — Socrates

When you're out there in Vancouver doing your thing, and then you come down and you see how positive people are - people who are so jazzed and so supportive. — Erica Durance

When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hotter fires, and the like. When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now. — Henry David Thoreau

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work. — David Cameron

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates. — Marc Faber

Whenever I travel with my young children, I'm always reminded of an important travel lesson: Never travel with my young children. — Jim Gaffigan