Diane Frolov Quotes

#1. Men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules, wherein they are deceived because they afterward find by experience they have gone from bad to worse.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

Diane Frolov

#3. What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?

James Clerk Maxwell

#4. Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

Lancelot Law Whyte

#5. It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov

#6. On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

Bojana Novakovic

#7. I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov

#8. We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov

#9. Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.

A.E. Samaan

#10. I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.

Sarah Mally

#11. Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.

J.K. Rowling

#12. My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Francis Picabia

#13. As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

Diane Frolov

#14. Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov

#15. Love, my ass. The international language is food.

Rachel Vincent

#16. You get use to someone - start to like them, even - and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

Rachel Ward

#17. This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

Elizabeth Bowen

#18. If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat ... you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov

#19. I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

Julie Klausner

#20. People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Diane Frolov

#21. We all carry secrets' said the fox. 'The more we ignore them, the heavier they become.

Claire Legrand

#22. She was pretty, yeah, but pretty like hundreds of other girls. You," he dabbed the bread in the air as if sketching her, "you're ... memorable. Who you are just shines through your face.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#23. Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

Diane Frolov

#24. Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.

Diane Frolov