Daneeka Quotes

#1. While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Eliot Engel

#2. I'll bring a flower out there and then give them a peace sign and hopefully they'll make it happen.

Nonito Donaire

#3. I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.

Angie Stone

#4. Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

Julie Anne Peters

#5. Doc Daneeka was Yossarian's friend and would do just about nothing in his power to help him.

Joseph Heller

#6. I kind of want everyone to think I'm a crazy person.

Megan Amram

#7. Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.

Joseph Heller

#8. I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

Darius Rucker

#9. We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

John Boehner

#10. We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#11. You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

Taylor Mali

#12. Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.

John Bowring

#13. I had an incredibly nasty retort ready that involved his mother and the U.S. Navy.

Rachel Hawkins

#14. [About compassion] You can have the 'golden rule' do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

Jennifer Beals

#15. He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane. Doc Daneeka had been told that people who enjoyed climbing into an airplane were really giving vent to a subconscious desire to climb back into the womb.

Joseph Heller

#16. We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true 'dignity' is.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#17. Harness the fire hidden in The Eucharist to bring about a true brotherhood and unity.

Jaime Sin

#18. An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

Anton Chekhov