Wunderbar Davie Quotes & Sayings

Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end. — Laura Hillenbrand

Caution is a fine and worthy thing in any monarch, but a truly great ruler must also know when to take risks. — Alex Rutherford

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence. — Henri Poincare

The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning and exploiting class and a property-less dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose. — Albert J. Nock

All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was that being white seemed to play so important a part in the assigning of values. — Walter Dean Myers

When Wu-Wear started making shoes and sneakers and pants, it was shoddy material. — Method Man

When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something. — Anthony Jeselnik

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you. — Donald Davis

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

His name was Zeke, short for Ezekiel. She asked him if he was religious, he said only about certain things. — Pam Houston