Desperadoes Quotes

#1. The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. America having changed to benefit them, their accounts suddenly cleared, they reverted to the only actions that still seemed mercenary in this topsy-turvy landscape: They rode the countryside like desperadoes, helping people.

Alden Bell

#3. Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!

Joseph Smith Jr.

#4. Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

Dolly Parton

#5. You can't keep your feet on the ground, hoping to enjoy the fruits of your labour. The fruits are on the top; keep climbing till you pluck them with your hands!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man." ~ 'The Black Cat.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

Annie Besant

#8. And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.

Jim Butcher

#9. There is no fine print in Thou shall not kill" Lysander to Santino

Katie Salidas

#10. We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.

Teri S. Lesesne

#11. I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.

Robert Sikoryak

#12. Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

Frederick Lenz

#13. I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#14. If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

Socrates

#15. Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of the unknown.

Eli Pariser

#16. After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Alain De Botton