Eudocia Salon Quotes & Sayings

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man. — Woodrow Wilson

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty. — Chuck Palahniuk

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life. — Elizabeth Smart

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. — George Herbert

We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense. — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking. — J. Vernon McGee

I know of no book which has been a source of
brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private,
that can compare with the Bible — James Paget

Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood. — Don Williams