Danescu Adrian Quotes

#1. We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

Walter Lippmann

#2. Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

Edward Sapir

#3. Life is full of kinks. And the great thing about kinks? They eventually work themselves out.

Courtney Cole

#4. Men are better than this theology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker.

Lafcadio Hearn

#6. I have very little patience with children.

Mem Fox

#7. It was then that we connected. His sound bounced through my head and out my eyes, painting my world with new shades of color. I still remember the smile that unnoticeably took my face as I inched for another touch.

Charles Lee

#8. Having sex is all trust. You can't take it back once you do it, and it leaves you completely emotionally vulnerable.

Rebecca Donovan

#9. I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of colour differences between two surfaces viewed side-by-side is a gestalt phenomenon.

David Papineau

#10. Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

James Ellis

#11. She had never been able to stand her husband, though not for one minute in their married life had she permitted this to make her unhappy. Only people who are fond of somebody can ever be unhappy, she had told her daughter before her wedding.

Anna Seghers

#12. Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

James Anthony Froude