General Danavis Quotes & Sayings

The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp. — Edward Klein

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. — Brent Weeks

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero without a flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe, which, after all, is based on conflict and opposition, the irresistible force meeting the unmovable object. — Garth Stein

Janie: Did you ever sell drugs?
Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh ... rather troubled back then.
Janie: Why did you stop?
Cabel: Got busted, and Captain made me a better deal. Janie: So you've been a narc since then? Cabel: I cringe at your terminology. — Lisa McMann

The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition - that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable - is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute - the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures - is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature. — Theodore Dalrymple