Mazzocchi Deanne Quotes & Sayings

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Never relinquish the initiative. — Charles De Gaulle

I saw why Hunter had looked so horrified at the idea of me staying in his house. The walls were covered in glossy posters of fast cars and movie starlets wearing thongs. — Jennifer Echols

Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other. — Epictetus

I'm going to bed, where I may die. — Diana Wynne Jones

God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me to dominate and control, but in order that I might find above him the Creator. Now the other person, in the freedom with which he was created, becomes the occasion of joy, whereas before he was only a nuisance and an affliction. God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in His image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God's free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth. — David Hume

I think Seattle has a great sort of luxury and comfort sensibility, which I oftentimes think is lost in fashion for fashion's sake. — Chris Benz

The unmerited dislike of another made one think less of oneself. We are enlarged by the love of others; we are diminished by their dislike. — Alexander McCall Smith

Hope is the breakfast of champions. — Tom Sturm

Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car. — Jimmie Johnson

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us. — Caspar David Friedrich