Detrimentals Quotes

#1. What chance has a Saint Francis, if his Assisi is a multicultured, financial, unyieldingly secular northern city, whose lepers and other detrimentals are charges on the public purse?

Robertson Davies

#2. Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

George Murray

#3. But if we don't figure out the way the world works and is, and if we don't live in harmony with it, we will be miserable and no better off than the dumb animals.

Bart D. Ehrman

#4. It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.

Abe Lemons

#5. Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

Stephen King

#6. He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Washington Irving

#7. Courage gives us a voice and compassion gives us an ear. Without both, there is no opportunity for empathy and connection.

Brene Brown

#8. We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.

Hillary Clinton

#9. In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

Joan Ganz Cooney