Giovani Dos Santos Quotes & Sayings

Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place. — Jack Bauer

I've learned that disagreements with James often occur because one of us knows something that the other does not. Usually it's not something obvious; it's a hidden assumption. Sometimes you have to keep digging - keep arguing, but I mean that in a friendly, searching-for-the-truth kind of way - to figure out what the hidden assumption is, because once you expose it, then the right answer suddenly comes into clear focus. Given this experience, I was comfortable disagreeing with James, fully expecting that we'd eventually work it out. In this case, the discussion went on for many months. (This willingness to cooperatively disagree, working together to try and get to the right solution, is an aspect of our culture that I try to promote.) — Dave Hitz

Arthur felt as though he were being read like a book, and wondered whether this girl would like his story. — Kiersten White

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today. — James Freeman Clarke

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future. — David Frum

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed. — Ida Tarbell

My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate. — Jermaine O'Neal

It was the kiss of a man who had waited years for the moment, and feared that it would never come again. — Jana Oliver

My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to. — Henry Adams

From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged. — George Edward Woodberry

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom. — Aeschylus

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today. — Thomas Merton

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. — Leo Tolstoy