Svetac Dana Quotes & Sayings

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli. — John Maynard Keynes

I had the misfortune to be nourished by the dreams and visions of great Americans
the poets and seers. Some other breed of man has won out. This world which is in the making fills me with dread. I have seen it germinate; I can read it like a blueprint. It is not a world I want to live in. It is a world suited for monomaniacs obsessed with the idea of progress
but a false progress, a progress which stinks. It is a world cluttered with useless objects which men and women, in order to be exploited and degraded, are taught to regard as useful. The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. Whatever does not lend itself to being bought and sold, whether in the realm of things, ideas, principles, dreams or hopes, is debarred. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal. — Henry Miller

The twist makes it a no-floater summer! — Julie Chen

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow. — Baron De Montesquieu

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best. — Roger Federer

All men live in suffering
I know as few can know,
Whether they take the upper road
Or stay content on the low ... — William Butler Yeats

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter. — Thomas Hobbes

I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself. — C.S. Lewis