Descants Quotes

#1. If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.

Lewis Thomas

#2. In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

Lincoln Chafee

#3. When he was with Finnerty he liked to pretend that he shared the man's fantastic and alternately brilliant or black inner thoughts - almost as though he were discontent with his own relative tranquility.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

Frederick C. Beiser

#5. By the time we're done, their guests have gathered outside to see the boy who must have flowers to give to the girl he loves.

Jennifer Niven

#6. If you don't know what to do next take the oath that will enhance your soul and erase your ego, & from the quiet space inside yourself, you will know what to do.

Nikki Rowe

#7. The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

Drew Carey

#8. I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

Francis Ford Coppola

#9. Most people made comments on how I was the strongest woman they knew.
That was before the title wave of disaster hit my charmed life.

K.D. Emerson

#10. What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

Michael Bloomberg

#11. I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

Paolo Sorrentino

#12. Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

Don McLean

#14. People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie.

~ Mrigank Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#15. The power of prayer is beyond the understanding of man

Lailah Gifty Akita