St. Didacus Quotes & Sayings

My mom and my grandmother definitely were (Democrat supporters). It wasn't a sense that, "Well, we vote for Democrats no matter what," but it was sort of the sense that, "Democrats are typically the ones that are looking out for working people like us." — Josh Earnest

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? — Igor Stravinsky

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself. — Oprah Winfrey

Nothing saves the day so much as a good word. And nothing has been misused as often. There is power in a word, whether we read it, speak it or hear it. And we command and are commanded by the word. We scatter, we call forth, and we comfort. Words are tools, weapons, both good and bad medicine-but very beautiful when used lovingly. The word, or ka ne tsv in Cherokee, is power to help heal, or make sick people sicker by negative talk around them. The word gives confidence when it builds rather than destroys. Relationships have been shattered beyond repair by a run-away mouth. Prosperity has been dissolved by talking lack. Until we listen to our own voices and how we talk, we would never guess how we use our words. — Joyce Sequichie Hifler

I recall the scent of some kind of toilet powder - I believe she stole it from her mother's Spanish maid - a sweetish, lowly, musky perfume. It mingled with her own biscuity odor, and my senses were suddenly filled to the brim; a sudden commotion in a nearby bush prevented them from overflowing - and as we drew away from each other, and with aching veins attended to what was probably a prowling cat, there came from the
house her mother's voice calling her, with a rising frantic note - and Dr. Cooper ponderously limped out into the garden. But that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since - until at last, twenty-four years later, I broke her spell by incarnating her in another. — Vladimir Nabokov

When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else. — Carine Roitfeld

The heart, once broken, stayed broken. — Justin Cronin

Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it! — T.F. Hodge

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes. — Jessi Klein

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life. — Gloria Vanderbilt

And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection. — Anton Chekhov

The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family. — John F. Kerry

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco. — Margaret Cho

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.' — Randeep Hooda