Declassed Quotes

#1. Dr K. relishes the pleasures (but only, as he notes himself, the pleasures) of being declassed.

W.G. Sebald

#2. The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

Marlene Dumas

#3. What motivates me more than money are God and my family.

Albert Pujols

#4. Taxonomically, my family is Freethinker (including atheists, skeptics, agnostics); my genus is Humanist (including the religion-based), and my species is Secular.

John Rafferty

#5. Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Charles Lamb

#6. All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

J. Anthony Lukas

#7. It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

Robert H. Schuller

#8. All social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#9. Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#10. The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us ... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

Octavio Paz

#11. You are not a drop in a ocean,
You are entire ocean in a drop.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#12. I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don't like the weekends.

Joaquin Phoenix

#13. And I had my first oyster. Now, this was a truly significant event. I remember it like I remember losing my virginity - and in many ways, more fondly. August

Anthony Bourdain

#14. It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

#15. To settle in for the long haul, equipped with basic versions of the serums to help them control their

Veronica Roth

#16. A man's principles are his own. Man starts flip-flopping on what he believes based on outside influences and he may as well run for congress.

J.J. Zep