Dhwaja Quotes

#1. I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.

John Diefenbaker

#2. Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.

Laurie Graham

#4. Our hearts do not need logic.
They can love and forgive and accept that which our minds cannot comprehend.
Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.

Lois W.

#5. Woman
with a capital letter
should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.

Mary Virginia Terhune

#6. The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Honore De Balzac

#7. I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

Peter Capaldi

#8. Life.... It's better than the alternative.

J. Richard Singleton

#9. Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. No more movie references. No more fictional characters to relate to. This was real. It was destiny. I was ... a thing, a commodity.

C.J. Roberts

#11. To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.

Richie Norton

#12. We must start from what seems a be a nullity, the unknowable, the inexpressible, the creative mystery wherein we are established. We cannot become more exact than this without introducing falsehood.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. You seem to vacillate between assistance and assault. Which is it?'
'I'm not surprised you've driven three men to try and kill you, I'm only surprised there weren't more,' said Damen, bluntly.
'There were,' said Laurent, 'more.

C.S. Pacat

#14. Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#15. War is a total social phenomenon. In this respect, Clausewitz's analysis is a precursor of Durkheim's sociology. Clausewitz has things to teach us about "mass" violence and contagion.

Rene Girard