Dansby Quotes

#1. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Fidel Castro

#2. Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

Michael East

#3. Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

James Fallows

#6. To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

Philip Sidney

#7. Dani said this woman, with whom she'd lived for two years, had never known her. "I feel like people accept the first thing I show them," she said, "and that's all I ever am to them.

Mary Gaitskill

#8. Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad.

George R R Martin

#9. There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#10. Health and mony goe farre.
[Health and money go far.]

George Herbert

#11. Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

Barbara Tuchman