Stefanus Dewitt Quotes & Sayings

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off. — Miranda Richardson

But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy beauty. Is that because it's beyond them? Is it because beauty represents something they cannot have, or is not inside them? — Jacqueline Winspear

By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school. — Sal Albanese

Some men who live hard and in good health can't believe sickness or weakness is anything but laziness, a sham. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What is freedom as a human experience? Is the desire for freedom something inherent in human nature? Is it an identical experience regardless of what kind of culture a person lives in, or is it something different according to the degree of individualism reached in a particular society? Is freedom only the absence of external pressure or is it also the presence of something - and if so, of what? What are the social and economic factors in society that make for the striving for freedom? Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from? Why then is it that freedom is for many a cherished goal and for others a threat? — Erich Fromm

I'm unfinished business and business hours are over — Renee Ruin

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less. — Shane Claiborne

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. — Noel Coward

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service - but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay - and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops - Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes - they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they - Darius! — Alexander The Great

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart. — Edwin Markham