Reassembling Delta Quotes & Sayings

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics. — Thomas Paine

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself. — David Douglas

For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it? — Eugene H. Peterson

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. — Eudora Welty

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. — Steve Martin

My mother says I must not pass
Too near the glass;
She is afraid that I will see
A little witch that looks like me;
With a red, red mouth to whisper low,
The very thing I should not know! — Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

This state is thus one of an excruciating overall sensitivity, patients being assaulted by sensory stimuli from their environment, or — Oliver Sacks

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it. — Tyra Banks

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you. — Ann Cotton

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. — Alexander Pope

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. — Edward Gibbon

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art. — James Anthony Froude

There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Your heart has all the feelings, all the perception, and all the love
that the universe ever had. — Debasish Mridha