Da Lat Quotes

#1. There had been a trapped thought about to emerge, something essential and unspeakable, released by the mention of those blank-faced soldiers. Now it was all gone but the image: dead boys with limbs akimbo, staring into the sky.

Donna Tartt

#2. We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

Stephen Covey

#3. As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

Michelle Kwan

#4. Words has the power to change us

Cassandra Clare

#5. I think the correct term for this was 'pissing contest', and though I was flattered, I didn't have time for it.

Kim Harrington

#6. A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

Orrin Woodward

#7. God is a God of purpose with eternal significance to everything he does

Sunday Adelaja

#8. One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.

Umberto Eco

#9. Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.
[Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti;
Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat
Impetus.]

Statius