Johnny Dang Quotes & Sayings

Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down. — Mark Helprin

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. — Freeman Dyson

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham

I just wanted to blame somebody. Makes me feel better.
'But that doesn't solve anything — Haruki Murakami

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. — Adam Smith

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society. — James Anthony Froude

I wish I could say I was a victim but I willingly played into the devil's hands. My reasons weren't always right and my justifications weren't just, but my weaknesses were common. — Jimmy Gleacher

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade. — Kim Kardashian

It has always been my belief that if you don't ask the right questions, you won't get the right answers. — Reid A. Ashbaucher

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places. — Paul Theroux

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue. — John Eldredge

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. — Nicolaus Copernicus

A man
poet, prophet, or whatever be may be
readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. — Nathaniel Hawthorne