Proscribing Def Quotes & Sayings

You don't need to have the biggest title to do the best job. — Robin S. Sharma

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be. — H.L. Mencken

Life is an adventure toward an unknown destination. — Debasish Mridha

After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity. — Brandon Bays

Winter is not an end. It is in transit. It is headed to bankruptcy. The sheriff will sell its stock for what he can get and an ice man will be the only bidder at the sale. — William Alfred Quayle

Healing Magic I instill,
Far Greater this,
Than any pill! — The Silver Elves

Of all the animals on this planet, we are surely the nastiest, the most deceitful, the most murderous and vile. Despite our God, or because of him. Both. — Russell Banks

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness. — Arundhati Roy

The LP actress Linda Hunt once wrote, 'Dwarfism, after all, isn't like cancer or heart disease. It isn't fatal, and it isn't even an illness. It is physical, though, and inescapable. You don't get over it. It is you. But you aren't it, and that's an important distinction. — Andrew Solomon

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land. — William Pennington

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life. — Frances Fox Piven

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover. — Arthur Helps

It's a ridiculous profession and it's getting worse. It's becoming almost like palm reading or phrenology. It's been relegated to pop best sellers and talk shows. The only people that take it seriously are upper middle class people who are lonely and can afford to pay someone to listen to them. — Ian Shoales

knew nonpoisonous snakes from the baddies, a lesson she still remembered — Sandra Hill

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey. — Vera Wang