Journalist Dorothy Dix Quotes & Sayings

When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that. — Elizabeth Blackburn

Mi hijito, I've told you a thousand times, if you speak badly of people, God will punish you and make you just like them. — Victor Villasenor

Aunt B walked out onto the helipad wearing loose yoga pants. "I'm just here to stretch. Kate, want to help?"
"Sure."
Thirty seconds later, as I was flying through the air, I decided that this wasn't the best idea. — Ilona Andrews

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

{Said in a letter to Voltaire} — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything. — Bill O'Reilly

There are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone. — Plato

There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages. The reason is that we once had an estate before we came here, and were obedient; more or less, to the laws that were given us there. Those who were faithful in all things there received greater blessings here, and those who were not faithful received less — Joseph Fielding Smith

All zoos, even the most enlightened, are built upon the idea both beguiling and repellent - the notion that we can seek out the wildness of the world and behold its beauty, but that we must first contain that wildness. Zoos argue that they are fighting for the conservation of the Earth, that they educate the public and provide refuge and support for vanishing species. And they are right. Animal-rights groups argue that zoos traffic in living creatures, exploiting them for financial gain and amusement. And they are right. Caught inside this contradiction are the animals themselves, and the humans charged with their well-being. — Thomas French

My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500. — Lapo Elkann

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day. — Adoniram Judson

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In the early eighteenth century, India owned 25% of the world's wealth. — Firas Alkhateeb

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring. — Jay Leno

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens. — Viggo Mortensen